Who asks a king for a penny?

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

A cheery relaxation is man's natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.

You cannot stop destructive actions by others, but you can stop your own destructive reactions to them

Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.

We can accept God becoming Man to save Man, but not Man becoming God to save himself.

Be teachable. That is the whole secret.

You can believe whatever you will, as long as you realize: it was your decision!

Welcome to Irkalla, the Land of the Dead, ” the woman said. “I am Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld.

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

Almost all words do have colour and nothing is more pleasant than to utter a pink word and see someone's eyes light up and know it is a pink word for him or her too.

Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

Nature comes home to one most when one is at home. The stranger and traveler finds her a stranger and traveler also.

I'm defending free speech pretty much all over the place because you still have freedom of speech.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

Every offense is not a hate at first.