I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.

Turn your diodes this way and pulse...

But you mark my words: I will be there when everything you love is destroyed. Everything you didn't even believe you would have.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Good listening works magic... Listen intently intentionally!

Worship is living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of a person or thing.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.

It's all right to agree or disagree on the balanced budget amendment. It's all right to talk about how we're going to appropriate.