Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?

Why are you so angry?”His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry, ” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.

...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.

None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.

I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.

If someone's 20 years old and every third line out of their mouth is anti-something specific, then draw your own conclusion.

If Donald Trump came to visit Britain I think he would unite us all against him.

When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.

I may not be playing with a full deck but I don't need a full deck. I have four aces.

When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not roll out the welcome mat for unemployed Americans.

You know that great car-stomach feeling when you fly over a hump? That was my whole body.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.