This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

The most important hour is always the present. The most significant person is precisely the one sitting across from you right now. The most necessary work is always love.

It is in the darkness that one finds the light.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive

For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

There is a huge silence inside each of us that beckons us into itself, and the recovery of our own silence can begin to teach us the language of heaven.

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.

The more deeply we are our true selves, the less self is in us.

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

True leadership is the orchestration of truth into action to shine Light into darkness.

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

This has been a wonderful life, absolutely terrific. There are very few things that I would go back and do differently, if I had that control.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

I love dudes who are about winning and that is Kobe Bryant !