And Quotes

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

They say productivity is the key to confidence, and confidence ... to productivity. And they're happy walking back and forth between these two rooms, each the excuse for the other.

Gray imagined Kat scolding her husband in an operatic duet that has been going on between husbands and wives for ages, that eternal mix of exasperation and love." -- James Rollins

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while reading - both fiction and nonfiction.

What a man pays for bread and butter is worth its market value, and no more. What he pays for love's sake is gold indeed, which has a lure for angels' eyes, and rings well upon God's touchstone.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

The opening of the first grammar school was the opening of the first trench against monopoly in Church and State.

But better far it is to speak One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

You might think of consumption as a fairly passive activity, but buying new products and services is actually pretty risky, at least if you value your time and money.

The time has come for us to envision ourselves as spiritual beings of light and love.

Whenever you're making a dark comedy, you're always looking for the yin and yang in an actor.

Japan, Europe, [and] America probably [are] better than last year [2015], not China.

We've accommodated the new rules and regulations. We've served our clients and had quite good returns.

I was a normal human being, but I did like that. I read a lot. I also liked math and science.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

Some people say, therefore, that violence and war are inevitable. I say rubbish: Our brains are fully capable of controlling instinctive behavior.

There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

It made me feel particularly sickened to know that this kind of callous attitude toward animals is repeated again and again in laboratories around this country.

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried?

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and love one another

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.

Inside every human being, there is unlimited time and space.

I'm shy, although I'm not shy with my friends and family.

Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

I have heard people say, "I garden in lieu of therapy, but therapy would be cheaper." I believe gardening's worth the price since it's at least as effective in curing head and heart of what ails us.

My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.

Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are among the three top reported hate crimes, after race and religion. Our law should not ignore that reality.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.