Once you label me you negate me.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Your professional physicist opinion?" I ask.She smiles. "I believe the cat to be alive. And what says my esteemed colleague?""Alive, " I say.

I got to bed later than mostPeople to see the moon in the night sky.And wake up earlier than most people to watch the Sunrise.

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

It's important I surround myself with people who make me happy.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

Transparence is the highest, most liberating value in art - and in criticism - today. Transparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.