And Quotes

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.

I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

The kids are saying 'Make Love, Not War', and I'm beginning to think they're right. For war costs millions of dollars a day, and love--just a few bucks a night!

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving.

We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth.

Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success.

While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.

Those that recognize the inevitability of change stand to benefit the most from it.

I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.

Faith, hope, and love remain. But the greatest of these is love.

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

It started with a simple ring, You became husband and wife, You progressed to being parents And you're still best friends for life.

From a single crime know the nation.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Come what may and love it.

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

There is price you pay when you want freedom of speech. You must be willing to accept the good the bad and the ugly when trying something out of the box.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.

Let us not worry about the future. Let us only do the right thing Today, At this moment, Here and now. Let the future take care of itself.

Some say knowledge is power, but that is not true. Character is power.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

Only love can save me and love has destroyed me.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Treat everyone with love and respect because they are your brother or your sister.

I am a great admirer of Robert Vavra and love his beautiful photographs and books. He is a wonderful artist, a poet.