it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.

If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.

She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right.

Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn.

With an attitude of respect and concern for other beings, we can create an atmosphere of happiness, real harmony and real brotherhood.

Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

I believe in a libertarian communist society.

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love

I wear a lot of different things, personally. I don't have favorites.

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!! Rev. TD Jakes (have I said how much I love ya!)

Much of my writing has taken the form of a pilgrimage: to sacred places that represent the best of America, to musicians and other artists who represent the best of their art.

A big dog tends to be much more at ease with kids and gentle with them than a little one that's always yelping.