Time spent in meditation is as precious as gold.

Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

Don't take no as a full stop, treat it like a comma.

What is right can never be impossible.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.

Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.

forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

They say God never gives us more than we can handle, but sometimes I think God has overestimated what I can take.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.

If you kill someone in Texas, we'll kill ya back.

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

When one is in very great pain and fear, it is extremely difficult to pray coherently, and I could only raise my mind in anguish to God and ask for strength to hold on.