And Quotes

When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.

My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life!

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

I love controlling a race, chewing up an opponent. Let's get down and dirty. Let's fight it out. It's raw, animalistic, with no one to rely on but yourself. There's no better feeling than that.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

I try to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but I have to indulge every now and then!

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.

For the marriage bed ordained by fate for men and women is stronger than an oath and guarded by Justice.

The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.

I love the conversation between film and music.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

I strongly believe in the separation of church and state. But freedom of religion does not mean freedom from religion, there is a better way.

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I'm going to do something called life and times.

My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.

The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

My dad, Donald, was a vet and had a practice in Yorkshire. Cats and dogs were his bread and butter, but his greatest love was large animals.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

If anything happens to me, tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way, they'll have to reevaluate me.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.

[I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Design is a matter of balancing different needs and outlooks-practical and aesthetic, masculine and feminine, designer and client, dream and reality.

'Twas drink made me fall in love, And love made me run into debt, And though I have struggled and struggled and strove, I cannot get out of them yet.

The greatness of an artist or a writer does not depend on what he has in common with other artists and writers, but on what he has peculiar to himself.

Live and learn from your mistakes, just get back up and keep fighting.

Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

I wind about, and in and out, - With here a blossom sailing, - And here and there a lusty trout, - And here and there a grayling.

The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.