Why did everyone send casseroles in times of crisis? Why didn't anyone ever send brownies and Jack Daniel's?

Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?

You must have a definite purpose of life and a deep desire to achieve it. Without purpose, life is boring.

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

My animals are a really important part of my life.

Blessed is the mind that jumps over and beyond its own conditioning and lands again into its natural state of unmoving awareness.

Your power is in your thoughts, so stay awake. In other words, remember to remember.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.