Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

She'll let you put her in her place, But she won't stand for anything worse than first.

Sometimes, things just aren't meant to be. Sometimes, no matter how bad you want it, you got to let it go. True.. Letting go.

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

Art is when we do work that matters in a creative way, in a way that touches (people) and changes them for the better.

the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape