And Quotes

A lot of people talk about the spirituality of Buddhism, and it is a spiritual discipline. But in Shambhala there also is a notion that you have to be synchronized with both heaven and earth.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

If you come home to a household of chaos and anger and fear, you're not going to feel protected from the world.

The No Child Left Behind Program was an incentive to the schools to get their kids up to snuff on math and science and reading.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

Fun comes hard - like, alas, its prarens, pleasure and happiness, whom we have to pursue.

No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out.

I'm a Christian. I was born and raised a Catholic. But I think there are people that are frauds that are ministers.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.

The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.

Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the longer the enemy can use them against us.

Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. (Acheron)

As both a musician and a former teacher, I feel that music is as important to kids as reading and writing.

I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’ I think that’s a good lesson for me.

Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps.

Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose.

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

Time and energy. Those are the most valuable sacrifices leaders can make.

Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.

I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.

It's important for everybody to have somewhere to go. Men and women need purpose [in life].

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

Law and order comes from having respect for one another.

Oh, thank you love With all my heart and soul I thank you love Each day that comes and goes I thank you love I thank you 'cause you gave me true love

I don't think there's a petty system of heaven and hell. The love of God is much more forgiving. I'm not a believer in a wrathful God at all.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.

If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there too.

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

I've always identified [myself] with the warrior and good over evil, and you don't negotiate for good over evil, if you want peace and love, kill people that deny you that.

I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!

Money and fame are very inconvenient and very problematic.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I split my time between the West Coast and the East.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

Cling, therefore, to Jesus in life and death; trust yourself to the glory of Him who alone can help you when all others fail.