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

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.

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.

Once you label me you negate me.

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.

The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.

As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all

I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in some way.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible.

With one hand he put A penny in the urn of poverty, And with the other took a shilling out.