The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacen….

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of ….

Love is the outreach of self toward completion..

I'm a very conceptual writer..

True power is not in trying to gain power; true power is in becoming power. But how to become power? It requires an attempt to make a definite change….

How can you live in the Northeast?.

The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, i….

Everything is true-Everything is permissible!.

During that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I ….

Love, too, was just a question of time.

I am definitely a worrier..

How can you hide from what never goes away?.

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate..

You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God..

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background..

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I ….

Cat talk is a complicated, self-centered language. If you speak to your cat first, it probably won't speak back. Cats initiate conversations..

As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces a mor….

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of….

Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert the pr….

When I loved it, I loved it. It was nothing better..