When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.

Pray for change in your heart and not your circumstance, and you will see what will happen.

Don't just become a monument of information, rather a solace of knowledge refuge.

Love is not the perfect match, love is the connection between two people.

Listen with the will to learn.

Experience and wisdom are more tangible than materialism.

With every step you take ask yourself, what do I really want?

Failure is an open invitation to improve and engage your frustrations with a refined energy of triumphant effort.

We spend most of the time justifying the situation and not finding the real problem thus leaving minimal chance of solutions.

One thing we entirely forget when making decisions is the fact that the results concern and throw back to the decision maker not the one it seeks to please.

Engaging solely to validate your opinion takes away from the character building process.

There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene.

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

Tenderness, mercy and love, we all need more of.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

Once I learned to swim, I learned that there were waves.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.