And Quotes

What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.

There’s not a better feeling than when you have found that moment of balance and harmony when both running and life come together. Then you know why you run and that you couldn’t live without it.

Make rest a necessity, not an objective. Only rest long enough to gather strength.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

Work hard, but make time for your love, family and friends. Nobody remembers PowerPoint presentations on your final day

I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much.

Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Tell the politicians and the hustlers: live and let live.

Concentrated attention is the collection of units of power on a chosen point of intention.

Everybody is jumping up and down back in Russia. Probably lots of vodka, too.

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.

The sentence 'snow is white' is true if, and only if, snow is white.

Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.

That the sky is brighter than the earth means little unless the earth itself is appreciated and enjoyed. Its beauty loved gives the right to aspire to the radiance of the sunrise and sunset.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance

The ifs and buts of history...form an insubstantial if intoxicating diet.

Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

Every man is what he is, because of the DOMINATING THOUGHTS which he permits to occupy his mind.

I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

Let go of people who bring you down, and surround yourself with those who bring out the best in you.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.

The more horrible this world (as today, for instance), the more abstract our art, whereas a happy world brings forth an art of the here and now.

A man who is 'of sound mind' is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Let us have a Universal Mind that loves and protects all creation and helps all things grow and develop. To unify mind and body and become one with the Universe is the ultimate purpose of our study.

I have lived so long because in those moments when I am dancing, I am beyond time and space.

What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.