Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.
If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.
When I am willing, all sound is available to me.
Peace can start with just one heart.
People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being. . . It is here. . . you may touch him, and see a profound change. ’ Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely.
His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.