I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'
The marvelous thing about a good question is that it shapes our identity as much by the asking as it does by the answering.
No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.
I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating. Most people attach failure to something not working out or how people perceive you. This way, it is about answering to yourself.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
There's great value to knitting or digging up your garden or chopping up vegetables for soup, because you're taking some time away from turning the pages, answering your emails, talking to people on the phone, and you're letting your brain process whatever is stuck up in there.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
In a community center in India once, somebody said, 'Aren't you sorry you don't have children?' And I thought, 'If I answer truthfully, I will lose them,' because it was a very different culture and a different place. And then I thought, 'What's the point of not answering truthfully?' So I told them the truth - I said, 'Not for a millisecond.'