Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God

It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.

Once you label me you negate me.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.

I think the one thing for me that's been working is just authenticity.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand.

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

God chooses people not for what He can do for them, but for the good they can do for others.

The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.

I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.