Alan Quotes

The wrinklier the raisin, the sweeter the fruit.

I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it.

While there seem to be many things to manage in the world, the most important thing to manage is your consciousness.

How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.

Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

If we build more windows and fewer walls, we will have more friends.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules!

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

The morning glory which blooms for an hour differs not at heart from a giant pine that lives for a thousand years.

Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

A person who thinks too much only ever thinks about his thoughts

Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

A Great Movie Evolves when Everybody Has the Same Vision in Their Heads.

I think kids are incredibly savvy readers. I think we should give them all the credit in the world. They want to know the truth.

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

If it weren't for second chances, we'd all be alone.

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.

Mission is the practical demonstration, whether by speech or by action, of the glorious lordship of Jesus.

The people who matter will recognize who you are.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.

The world is in an extremely dangerous situation, and serious diseases often require the risk of a dangerous cure like the Pasteur serum for rabies.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.

Some see the glass half full, some see it half empty, and some see it crawling with toxic alien parasites who want to devour your pancreas.

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

I still believe that the Democrats have it right about health care, education, the war in Iraq and, yes the war on terror.

Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about.

If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.

When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.

Gratitude incorporates both the heart and mind, and instantly paves the shortest road to happiness.

Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.