Put aside the need to know some future design and simply leave your life open to what is needed of it by the Divine forces.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Faith is not a question of the existence or non-existence of God. It is believing that love without reward is valuable.

If one could possess, grasp, and know the other, it would not be other.

The very relationship with the other is the relationship with the future.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It’s because we’re different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality-not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.

Stand fast, firm and steadfast.

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

I am so pleased with my golf course. I am to say that it's the best I've ever seen it - without equivocation.

The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.

Depressions may bring people closer to the church but so do funerals.

HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.

Your horse is named Small. Yes. Mine is named Big. -Fire and Brigan

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

The more improbable the message, the less "compressible" it is, and the more bandwidth it requires. This is Shannon's point: the essence is its improbability.