There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

You must change in order to survive.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Everybody lies

Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you?

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy of great talent.

That's when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you're awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.

Comedy is such a private thing; it's not always easy to translate something funny from one language to another. It's very personal and cultural as well.

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.

Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

The 3 C's of Life: Choices, Chances and Changes.You must make a choice to take a chance or you will never change.