Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

The illusion is we are only physical.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.

Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.

I'm passionate about people. I've spent my life in advocacy. People matter - whether or not we agree on the issue, people matter.

When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God.

I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.