Don't worry that children never listen to you worry that they are always watching you.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
To understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
The pig was so earnest. So sincere. So very there. The pig brought gravity and mythic import to this well-worn fairy tale.
Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to...
Circumstances, luck, mutual need, affection and time played a part. No relationships were made in heaven. They were made because living things were looking for good company. And when you found good co...
Arguing whether or not God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name of God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notio...
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk...
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the...
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news becaus...
Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.
It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.
I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back.Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since whe...
As long as life exists, something always happens next. There are always consequences—always sequels.
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)