One who is established in a comfortable posturewhile concentrating on the inner self alonenaturally becomes immersed in the spontaneousarising of the….

Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough outside..

I have never voted in my life..

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of..

You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks….

Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness..

I was never trained for anything.

Pondering was the highest vocation... Pondering was a special kind of thinking. It was not done in the mind, that chilly place, but in the heart, whe….

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one i….

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice..

Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the all-searching eye….

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will ….

Make your decisions with your heart, and you'll end up with heart disease..

I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer….

the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something al….

Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weigh….

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

We, the human beings in this world, if there is a spark of goodness or kindness in our hearts, avoid judging people. We prefer forgiving to judging..

So we go, so little knowing what we touch and what touches us as we talk! We drop out a common piece of news, "Mr. So-and-so is dead, Miss Such-a-one….