You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

People who are vigorous and brutal often find war enjoyable.

So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.

You know I like that fight and I'm confident of walking away with two super-middleweight titles

Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?

The Persian Gulf is our lifeline ... We will respect international navigation, for us, freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf is a must.

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?

Just come into stillness. Have your intention be to relax with the breath. That will begin to set in motion a habit that will start to train the mind.