And Quotes

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

May all our contemporaries stand beside their brothers and sisters in humanity. Each one of you is called by Christ and must be a missionary of the Good News in word and in active charity.

Men and women were created for something great, for infinity. Nothing else will ever be enough.

We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

Violence and war lead only to death.

We are not alone. We have many brothers who in this moment of catastrophe came to help. And we too, because of this, we feel more like brothers and sisters because we helped each other.

I want to give a shout-out to all my Saudi Arabian brothers and sisters. If you could all please send me some oil for my jet, I would truly appreciate it.

The thing that I realize about fashion now, fashion and music, now versus back then is that you had to have fresh records and be fresh.

Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.

Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24

The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

God, here and there, makes madness a calling.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.

My friends and family definitely helped me with the biggest obstacle in my life, which was just staying in L.A. long enough to really give it a shot.

The average American salesmen keeps 33 men and women at work - 33 people producing the product he sells . . . and is responsible for the livelihood of 130 people.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four months, and that got me ready for that.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

Whenever the moon and stars are set, Whenever the wind is high, All night long in the dark and wet, A man goes riding by.

The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.

Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love.

We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!

The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

Me, what's that after all? An arbitrary limitation of being bounded by the people before and after and on either side. Where they leave off I begin, and vice versa.

Hollywood is like a stock market - you're always up and down and all around. With age, you start to invest less in the outcome of that.