And Quotes

Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors.

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers.

The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world.

About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

Joy is wealth and love is the legal tender of the soul.

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?

[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.

No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

The leaf lives its appointed time, and does not struggle against the wind that carries it away. The leaf does no harm, and finally falls to nourish new leaves. So it should be with all men and women.

What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

When I was a child, I spoke like a child. When I was an adult, I no longer spoke like a child. When I became old and wise, I spoke again like a child. I wish I had spoken all my life like a child.

I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?

It's fun to deal with the terror and the huge highs and lows of things. We're still getting massive surprises, every time you have any kind of Twilight-related event or anything.

I was 12 in '55 when rock and roll hit. It just completely transformed me.

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

We live in a world in which the worst looks as if it is going to happen and the worst often does happen, and yet out of the anguish and waste, love and trust come in new forms.

Personal relationships are often based on affection - professional relationships can have affection but they must have mutual understanding, trust and respect.

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

I contemplated pride and love. All this contemplativeness. When will I be free of it?

Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.

You are confusing plumbing and love again.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

Without music, my life would be black and white.

If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.

I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Find myself a rock and roll band, that needs a helping hand.

Don't have much, but what I've got is yours, except of course my steel guitar.

I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports.

Friends don't let Jackasses drink and drive.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.

Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again.

Wisdom and knowledge are two different things.

I loved my mother and father.

I have always made sure that I put my game ahead of anything else, sometimes even before friends and family.

I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. And there is not much percentage in the future.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.

Major League Baseball is the best league in the world, full of capable hitters up and down every single lineup.

I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.

Work and life are an interconnected adventure, guided by the heart, winged with spirit, and nourished by the soul.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.