And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

I know firsthand how agonizing waiting can be.

When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom.

On Lee as commander: He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

Keep an open mind, but don't let your brain fall out.

I testifyto rainbow feathers, to the span of heavenand walls of colour,the colonnades of jasper.

This time. The whiskey burned down Jett's throat and probably messed with his brain. The beauty of oblivion. If he couldn't find her, then that

We avoid thinking about how we feel, while at the same time, we can't stop thinking about how we feel.

Built on the foundation of concentration is the third aspect of the Buddha's path of awakening: clarity of vision and the development of wisdom.

at seventy-seven, what did a few wrinkles matter? A small price to pay for an energetic and active old age. She drove in the last stake,

Mental toughness is an element in the make up of perseverance.

You'd be amazed how much quality collective thought can be captured using two simple tools: a voice connection and a shared screen.

All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves.

I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

Self-education only produces expressions of self.

To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage ...

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream;It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain.

You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.

I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.