The sweetest victory is that won when everyone counted you out because they believe you can not make it.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

There is something almost shocking in the notion of so chaste a function carrying this Kantian hurlyburly in her womb.

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.

After I fell in love with you, I fell in love with my life.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.