Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.
To simply sit here and know the tenderness of being alive means being drenched in love.
All along, you've been shaping your destiny unconsciously. But you can also work on it consciously. If you make the effort to access your core and realise that everything is your responsibility, and shift your focus inside you, then you can rewrite your destiny.
Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.
If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.
Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.
I run my household. Not all the time, well, sometimes.
I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.