You really don't want to be his/her first love. They need to have first fallen in love with Jesus.

What you see is highly dependent on how you look.

Wisdom is not in having resources, it's in knowing how to use them, when to use them & if to use them.

Foolishness is not a lack of resources, it's the lack of wisdom.

Dare to be a fool in the face of impossibilities.

Don't throw away your faith because doubt is present, throw away your doubts because faith is present

The purpose of revelation is to alter your experience.

Knowledge deepens with experience.

The truth is precious commodity, not everyone will possess her.

The sole purpose of knowledge is to create hunger for experience.

Do whatever makes your spirit glow out loud.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

I take it upon myself to get motivated. I know when I have a bad game. It's something I think about myself when it happens, and I don't need someone to tell me I didn't do this or didn't do that.

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

The power of forgiveness is huge; it is really big, and it can save this world.

The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

Thank God for sleep! And when you cannot sleep, still thank Him that you live to lie awake.