Think before you speak. Read before you think.

People have been cooking and eating for thousands of years, so if you are the very first to have thought of adding lime juice to scalloped potatoes try to understand there must be a reason for this.

Hope blooms when the time is ready.

Gratitude leads to a good attitude

Uncommon faith gives you uncommon power.

It takes a lot of practices to get it right. The key is to keep practicing.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

I mean if it wasn't for The Beatles, none of this, none of the music we listen to would even exist. They're my favourite band of all time.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

It is true that, when an entitlement begins to be enjoyed by people, they like to keep it.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.