Back then I could not understand one word of what I read.Reading did, however, give me heart. Even if you cannot understand what you are reading you can get something from books.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

Love has something to do with recognition, We can be fascinated by the unknown, we can be attracted by it, but love is something that grows, slowly, in an atmosphere of trust.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.

Basker possesses three kinds of bite: a snap, a nip, and then something like a buzz saw and an angle grinder mounted on a bear trap.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your kids go out and play.

I guess babysitters are like used cars... You never really know what you're getting.

What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.

I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

I think we want to be around people that kind of push us and inspire us and maybe teach us.

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.