"Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love."

“We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.”

“When we invest ourselves in deep personal relationships, we take a risk. We could always get hurt. The more we expose ourselves, the greater the potential for pain. No one can hurt us like someone we’ve trusted with our heart. No one.”

“Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?”

“"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then with the Witness or primordial Self, then with each previous stage taken up, enfolded, included, and embraced in the radiance of One Taste. And that means we do not "get rid" of the small ego, but rahter, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind; they do not erase them.”

“Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.”

“Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.”

“The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.”

Source : "Senator Fulbright: Portrait of a Public Philosopher". Book by Tristram Coffin, 1966.

“Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.”

Source : Willy Brandt (1971). “Peace: Writings and Speeches of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1971”