And Quotes

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot

It feels like some part of me that was curled down and waiting in the dark has risen, and now stands stretching and strong in the sunshine. I knew it.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout this time as, indeed, he assured me he was to me.

Plant spirit medicine is the shaman’s way with plants. It recognizes that plants have spirit and that spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal the deepest reaches of the heart and soul.

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.

I really appreciate my performing so much better, as I get older. I don't take it for granted anymore. I really relish it and love it.

I just know that, right now, ... the biggest record selling business there is is rock and roll.

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

Only grown-up men are scared of women.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

It is intolerable that the world's religions - founded on the values of love and compassion - should provide a pretext for the expression of hatred and violence.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

When you show a man what he wants he will move heaven and earth to get it.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.

When you practice selfless giving, you're in balance and harmony with everything.

As long as you are in the relative worlds, you should be realistic and know there is winning and losing here.

Spiritual balance is tai chi. It is the center of things. It is the place where yin and yang meet. In the chakras, it is considered the heart chalkra, anahata.

All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

Frank [Zappa]'s music was never for the mass audience. His music contains specific kinds of information that you won't find elsewhere in rock and roll.

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

You've got work to do. Don't put this off. And don't take the long view, here. You know? Life is today and tomorrow and - and if you're lucky, next week.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would sit down and eat a steak with Keith Olbermann and Barack Obama before they would dine on tofu and asparagus with me!

The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.

You are what you think about.

Needle and thread flesh and bone Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home. Your suture lines, they sparkle like diamonds Bright stars to light my confinement "Stitch.

It's time to diet and exercise when you accept the fact that you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but not while you're wearing a bathing suit.

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.