And Quotes

Wherever Harry went inside the tiny cottage or its garden, he could hear the constant ebb and flow of the sea, like the breathing of some great, slumbering creature.

I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.

I’d still be nice to you if you were ugly.” “Okay.” A wicked grin slipped over his full lips. He bent his head down and whispered, “I just wouldn’t offer you any cookies.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

To be a leader in the Church has always required strength and faith beyond the merely human.

Be grateful for every thing good and bad that comes to you. For all things have contributed to your advancement.

There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be.

They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo.

Chaos and love when hand in hand and oh, the glorious grace of the world because of it.

Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I'm concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.

There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

Eager for bread and love.

You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.

Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.

The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.

When you rest in presence and pure awareness, sometimes everything is experienced as love because you're connected with all that is, and love is simply the nature of being.

Billy Graham is for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.

You can't separate the mind and body. It's impossible.

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.

In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

When all is said and done, teaching is what I try to do for a living.

Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.

Well, there's no other person like me. Ain't nobody else like me. It's flattering. I don't like to do it too much because I get tired of me. But people ask, so I get to do it every now and then.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

Where I came from with the Twins, they were passionate about baseball. Through thick and thin, it was, 'Let's go.' It's something I have to get used to. I'm blocking it out as much as I can.

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?

Wars come and go; politics endure.

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.

I should like to insist that nearly all the important questions, the things we ponder in our profoundest moments, have no answers.

O' the blue-bodied cowherd - ever playful in love and war. Don't you fail to see the immensity of his wisdom and light.

Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.

I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that's part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.

I love the idea that if you build something with enough depth and texture, you can watch it again and again and see new things every time, and that's very important.

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

The tendency everywhere in America to concentrate power and responsibility in one man is unmistakable.

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

It is seldom men think of death in the pride of their health and strength.

I only work with people I trust and respect.

Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.

Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.