The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

The future is just a projection of the past.

No aacomplishments are important than self realization of self satisfaction.

I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.

You don't have to be religious to hear God, you just have to be willing, and there's a big difference between the two.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards!

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.

Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.