And Quotes

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential. If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons.

I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.

Act confident, even when you're not.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.

God designed it this way; He intended that His great power, wisdom, and love should become visible in very ordinary and otherwise inconsequential people.

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."

The more one studies the harmony of music, and then studies human nature, how people agree and how they disagree, how there is attraction and repulsion, the more one will see that it is all music.

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becoming Grand Canyons.

I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.

I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

The qualities that one needs to be a good goalkeeper are exactly the same as to be a good sculptor. In both professions one should have a good relationship with time and space.

You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It’s ok to cry..!! You can overcome

My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

The coming of Jesus at Bethlehem brought joy to the world and to every human heart. may His coming this Christmas bring to each one of us that peace and joy that He desires to give.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

If you grow yourself to become a successful person, in strength of character and mind, you will naturally be successful in anything and everything you do.

He was old and wise, which meant tired and disappointed.

Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice.

Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it's all good.

Love is like fever; it comes and goes without the will having any part of the process.

We trust and believe in what we love.

The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

I had this roommate in college who would get up almost 2 hours before class to do hair and makeup. That's not for me.