And Quotes

I think it's my energy and love of life that has been the real key to my fame and success.

We must remember how to honor and respect life with each breath, step, word, and thought. What you bless blesses you in return. This is the power of reciprocity.

He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

The organization of light and shadow effects produce a new enrichment of vision.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Be happy, and a reason will come along.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace.

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived.

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

You [Robespierre] will follow us soon. Your house will be beaten down and salt sown in the place where it stood.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated live in pain. The peaceful live happily, giving up victory and defeat.

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

A person of knowledge and power never goes out looking for battles. All their battles are within.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.

Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

I was born and raised a guido. It's just a lifestyle, it's being Italian, it's representing, family, friends, tanning, gel, everything.

I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

If you can't forgive and forget, pick one.

Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing.