Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

God knows your every need.

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

As far as unwed mothers on welfare are concerned, it seems to me that they must be capable of some other form of labor.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

When you are caught in the mind, your past defines you. When you are present, you are beyond definition.

Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

In life, you need a house and a car. After that, you have a choice.