When we're together, " he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.

Happiness is.. rising in LOVE in spite of gravity

The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.

If you cultivate inner peace, flowers of happiness will grow in your garden to spread the fragrance of peace all over the world.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

I don't say things to be offensive I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.