And Quotes
I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.
It is confirmation to me that beyond the material world of cause and effect, there is a dimension of spirit waiting for our recognition. We see such a small piece of all the wonder surrounding us.
The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.
We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions.
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.
The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage.
The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.
Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
Get as much out of life as you possibly can with all the passion that goes with it. Then give it back with all the love and respect it deserves.
It is impossible to bring more into your life if you are feeling ungrateful about what you have. Why? Because the thoughts and feelings you emit as you feel ungrateful are all negative emotions.
Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.
I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed.
I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.
Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.
The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.
We were poor. we were so poor, in my neighborhood the rainbow was in black-and-white.
Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.
Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression.
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
When we contemplate buying something, we usually ask the price of it, then decide whether or not it is worth that much to us. But when we expend time and energy, we often just go ahead and pay.
I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
What goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
