To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

I work hard, I work very hard. All the books at least 30 revisions.

MY Life is my masterpiece. My work is my worship.

They're not poodles, they're art.

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

Love should start from people close to us, then be extended to other people, to strangers, and eventually to the world

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

I said to the almond tree, 'Sister, speak to me of God.' And the almond tree blossomed.

If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.