Listen; this world is the lunatic's sphere , Don't always agree it's real, Even with my feet upon it And the postman knowing my door My address is somewhere else.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable

Friendship needs no words-it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it.

That's probably good, all things being equal, for emerging markets, not bad, even though it may not be great for all their currencies.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

... everything written is at least in part fantasy. Except maybe the national budget. That's horror.

Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.

Ronald Reagan set the stage for the end of the Cold War.

Every fight can be the last one, that's why for every fight I prepare myself like it's the last fight of my career.