However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego go with it.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.