The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep

When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

Success is loving life and daring to live it.