Feel yourself grounded to the earth, while your mind is focusing on the sky of clarity.

When your thinking thoughts pass, you will be in the clear sky of your mind.

Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.

Forgiving is the ultimate source of peace, healing and inner happiness.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

I can only hope the federal aid made available today will be sufficient in our recovery efforts, and pray that our citizens continue to be safe from the fallout of this dangerous natural disaster.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

He never said "Don't tell your mama." He never had to say it. I did not know how to tell anyone what I felt, what scared me and shamed me... (109)

Every morning I stay in bed for ten minutes to ponder my place in the universe. Then I wash my face and check my karma.

I'm not really caught up in the whole commercial thing of Christmas. I'm probably more of a pagan than a Christian, but it's hard not to get caught up in it.

I may not be the lithest, the most talented, or have the fastest time in the field, but I have passion and courage, and sometimes that is enough to do something extraordinary.

What is life without laughter?

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!