The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel.

He doesn't jingle my chimes.

Blueness doth express trueness.

Faith allows me to feel that as long as I'm in line with God everything will be O.K. and that I'll make it through whatever.

The market is a tool, and a useful one. But the worship of this tool is a hollow faith. Far more important than any tool is what you make with it.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.

Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!

Our flag represents every American and it should not be hidden away as a result of property agreements.

Cigars served me for precisely fifty years as protection and a weapon in the combat of life... I owe to the cigar a great intensification of my capacity to work and a facilitation of my self-control.