And Quotes

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Barack Obama will appeal to both black and white voters in America. White voters who'll think he's Tiger Woods.

For three long years I have been going up and down this country preaching that government . . . costs too much. I shall not stop that preaching.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

After this happens again and again, we reach a point were there is nothing but satori, which is what nirvikalpa samadhi is like.

Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.

We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.

Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.

Turn away from mischief. Again and again, turn away. Before sorrow befalls you.

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.

Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's got an Apple computer and he really likes Beyonce so he must be a liberal."

Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

There are two unpardonable sins in this world -- success and failure.

I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.

I fully understand it's important to maintain the separation of church and state. We don't want the state to become the church, nor do we want the church to become the state.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.

Faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and charity - those are the tools God gave me. Ad I keep circling around it.

Often trials and tribulations are allowed to come into our lives because of what we are doing right.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way.

I don't like old people on a rock and roll stage. Me included.

OPTIMISM, enthusiasm, confidence against fear, prejudice, conformity - that is his enduring message to the men and women of Australia. Never more than now.

I learned to ski at a young age and love it - but I don't get to do it as much as I'd like because of the risk of injuries.

Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.

Peace has its price: your head and heart; less than that is war.

You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends--and his.

I guess it's a sequel to our story From the journey 'tween heaven and hell With half the time thinking of what might have been and half thinkin' just as well. I guess only time will tell.

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restrictsyour thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

I'm sure drugs and alcohol perhaps would inspire new thoughts, but it's certainly not something that I use as a tool or a mechanism to create.

I love when I go out and I have my hair and makeup done, but I also like it when I'm just with the family because that's real.

I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.