We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

We perish because we fail to pray to God.

I came to this world just to give love, just to fill the world with silent song of love, just to feel and share the power of love, just to sing the song of dedication to love.

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them make them.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

I used to go to soul nights because I loved dancing, and so did my friends, and we loved the music. We used to go listen to black American soul.

Young black men had an opportunity to make money that they had never made before, so why not be flashy? I'm not mad at the flash. It just needed to be balanced.