Paradoxically, the more I learned to let go of my own wishes and desires (in this case, the desire not to be hit), the more they became possible.

Your perception of the world around you is not necessarily the same as what is actually occurring.

Mastery, on the other hand, is being present with what is occurring, staying with it from beginning to end.

Noble failure atones for the impossibility of resisting progress successfully.

I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.

The only true solution would be a convention under which all the governments would bind themselves to defend collectively any country that was attacked.

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go.

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.

Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.

Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.

If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?