Our Quotes
The whole basis for our relationship with God is rooted and grounded in grace, in that which is not earned.
In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
If you read our Founding Fathers, people like Benjamin Franklin and Jefferson - what we're doing now in this country is making them roll over in their graves.
If we spent as much time feeling positive about getting older, as we do trying to stay young, how much different our lives would be.
Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.
The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.
It is one of the dangerous self-deceptions of our society to pretend that mechanisms of control do not really exist, and to maintain, without qualification, that we are an economically "free" people.
When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.
The real future of America, the best future for ourselves and our children, is to go back in the direction of limited government restrained by the Constitution.
Alot of people think our lives are all about taking pictures and stuff like that. But it becomes a real bother when they're taking pictures of you all the time.
In our society, to be obsessed with a vision about how to make a better automobile makes you a genius, but to be obsessed with a vision about the nature of reality makes you a nut.
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.
Stormy Weather is really wonderful - it ought to be required reading for everyone who is concerned about our planet's climate, beginning in every high school in the country.
We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.
Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.
I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.
Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.
Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.
Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light.
Our relationship, our shared support, our consistency, is unrivaled by any other connection.
In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance... about the separation of self and other... about the consequences of our actions.
We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
Transportation is an essential part of our lives, and in New York City where driving is not a viable option most of the time, public transportation and taxis are the only way to get around.
If I were proud of anything in my life, it would be of our love. I feel we have to tell to each other as many things as we can, so we are not only lovers, but the closest of friends at the same time.
We all have points in our lives where two roads present themselves and we have to make a decision very fast. We don't know how it will impact our lives, but it usually does.
It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country.
If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?
Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.
In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.
Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within.
The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.
We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.
A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!
The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.