Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you’re a Smurf.

Freedom can be an acquired taste for those who have never savored it.

Unless you break free from the shackles of beauty as dictated by the media and society, true beauty will be elusive.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

History and beauty lie in the baroque wrinkles of old cathedrals. mosques, synagogues, temples and faces whose stories are told without a single word.

The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.

Roll in the snow.Shower in the rain.Bask in the sun.Weatherproof your soul.

Hard and dry, a chickpea is inedible.Hard and dry, a heart is unlovable.Presoak it in dance, music and art.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

Start a rumor aboutpeace taking over, love being the new black, and compassion going viral.

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

You don't pay a cent to dream so why dream of becoming king's guard when you can dream of being a King

Great, ' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.

I've never enjoyed a course or training as much as this. I feel inspired, energised and more focussed about my teaching and career future.

Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

I'm an angel not a frickin' saint.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.