Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.

I use only my penned imagination to hold my readers captive.

In baseball you don't know nothing.

It is not truth but opinion that can travel the world without a passport.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.