And Quotes

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.

Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.

The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us.

I know who I am inside and outside, and I know what I want to do. And I will always go with my dreams.

Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind

In your own bosom you bear your heaven and earth, And all you behold, though it appears without, It is within, in your imagination, Of which this world of mortality is but a shadow.

Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.

You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.

I want my work to reflect my level of gifts and talent

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.

If aliens came down and challenged us to a Battle of the Bands to decide the fate of Planet Earth, I would feel very confident putting early Van Halen forward as our champion.

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.

I'm passionate about everything, like my family and friends. Anybody I am talkin' to is gonna be bona fide real. There is no substitution for happiness. Period.

I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of “gris”. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.

You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.

Instruct thyself for time and patience favor all.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

The place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise.

With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.

I am totally committed to maintaining the freedom and equality America has to provide to every citizen.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.

I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

The road goes ever on and on

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

Become genuinely interested in other people.

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.