And Quotes
What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.
There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.
A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end.
Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not.
My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned.
My career was full of struggles and dreams, disappointments and peaks and valleys. But there was no Twitter, no Facebook or TMZ. Young actors could make mistakes and not become the focus of tabloids.
I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.
The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.
What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services.
When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.
I've come to learn that there is a real difference between men and women. It's genetic.
If I had to pick between Heaven and Hell, I'd pick Hell, because I can't keep white clean.
I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.
I don't speak for all of us, but I'm pretty sure that my thoughts and opinions and beliefs identify with most people who are black because that's my soul.
The heart and soul of loving yourself is integrity and the peace of conscience it inspires.
If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.
What stands between heaven and earth is merely the acceptance of ourselves as apart of this world and our placement of ourselves.
If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.
I thought it would be my one and only exhibition so I decided to call it My Major Retrospective.
The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.
I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.
Heaven is more than a destination; it is a motivation. Knowing that we shall dwell in the heavenly city ought to make a difference in our lives here and now.
The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.
And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.
Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.
