And Quotes
I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.
To love is to take delight in happiness of another, or, what amounts to the same thing, it is to account another's happiness as one's own.
In every hedge and ditch both day and night We fear our death, of every leafe affright.
My mind and body, my mind and body I cut my body into pieces, and I dedicate these to Him.
With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly, I've worked with men and women who loved their profession and who, like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.
What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.
Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
Alas, so all things now do hold their peace: Heaven and earth disturbed in no thing: The beasts, the air, the birds their song do cease; The nightes chare the stars about doth bring.
Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!
Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one
The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness.
The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates.
I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that my instincts were right.
My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.
Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.
You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.
Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
I'm not a complete libertarian. There is a proper role in some areas of the government to have rules and regulations - I'm not an anarchist.
Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.
Peter Wagner, my son, just won the Bel-Air Junior Club Championship. Parred the last three holes. One-putts, up and down. Us Wagners don't hit greens. We chip and putt.
The bad things you can see with one eye closed. But keep both eyes wide open for the little things. Little things mark the great dividing line between success and failure.
Marriage is like a violin. After the beautiful music is over, the strings are still attached.
Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.
The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.
We are going on the assumption that this is not socialized medicine. Let me tell you here and now it is socialized medicine.
Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.