The sun will stand as your best man And whistle When you have found the courage To marry forgiveness When you have found the courage to marry Love.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.

It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man.

Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

There is no pleasure in flying to the top! The pleasure is climbing up there step by step, feeling every single muscle!

I have been rich and I have been poor. I know which one I prefer.

I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

The laws are with us, and God on our side.