God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind.
A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.
It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.
I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.
A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
live your life as if you may lose everything.
There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 A. M. on a Thursday night in August in Shaker Heights and I bet you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I tell you, it's ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.
I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it. ' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.