Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

... all of the great sounds that James Burton and Jimmy Bryant were getting, came out of Telecasters

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

Only cowards hide behind silence.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.