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You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.
We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.
Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. ...
The thing is, what I'm tryin' to say is - they do get on a lot better without me, I can't help them any. They ...
I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at ...
Before you speak words of hatred, so count with peace in your voice to ten.
I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do ...
You'll never do anything creative, innovative or world changing if you fear criticism. Pioneers are easy targets for arrows!
I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. ...
Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.
By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and ...
Capitalism cannot cause a financial crisis because capitalism is about markets constantly correcting errors. It is government intervention that can and often does cause crises,
Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the ...
Great teachers are great mentors.
From a legal point of view - " He shook his head. "Forget the law. It isn't going to help. They'll cite it where it ...
He is Jesus, only. God has revealed Himself to us through Jesus. Jesus is what God wanted us to know and to love. He is ...
You don't need a crown to be a Princess. You don't even need a Prince. You just have to believe that you deserve to be ...
Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no ...
We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call ...
How does one conquer fear, Don B.?" "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said. "The left or the right?" Don ...
For every transaction, there is someone willing to buy and someone willing to sell at an agreed price, both believing that it's good value and ...
The reality in Iraq is that we are creating new terrorists and severely damaging the public impression of the United States in the Muslim world.
...it wasn't for the love of a man that she took those chances, but for the love of a horse.
The author observes that the friendship of John Hay and Charles Francis Adams benefited from a physical distance that required correspondence, meaning that feelings only ...
In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And ...
With great influence comes great responsibility.
I'm not sure if I can cook. I probably can. But I'm really good at cajoling anybody around me to cook for me.
Attachment is conditional, offers love only to certain people in certain ways; it is exclusive. Love, in the sense of metta, used by Buddha, is ...
Your thigh? Your shoulder? Is there any part of you that hasn't been hurt yet?"He seemed to be contemplating my question for a moment and ...
I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and ...
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in ...
Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could ...
Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take ...
The song of thrush and blackbird, joy that falls so gently on the ears to celebrate another day of life and living, flying free.
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do ...
We are condemned to repeat the past whether we remember it or not. It is inevitable; just ask Nietzsche (eternal return) or Hegel (history repeats ...
Never trust or take advice from someone who abandoned their childhood dream.
The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. ...
It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of ...
I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' ...
Our friend Chewy doesn't speak much, but he chews a lot of tobacco so we call him Chewbacco.
When you do a film, you know you're shooting for 6 or 9 weeks, you've got your cast and crew. Overall, no one can just ...
The monster is peeking through, peering at me from behind his mask. He wants to come out. He wants me to play with him.
Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired ...
A man driving a wagonload of children in a cage doesn't have to state his business. A farmer whose flesh lies sunken around his bones, ...
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part ...
You have to be bold because there will be folks who will say, "You can't" or "You shouldn't" or "Why?" There is a certain boldness ...
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.
Shut up, cowboy."Yes, ma'am."And give me a kiss."Yes, ma'am.
I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.
I'm a sci-fi fan, and I guess you have to let go of some of that at some point, and realize that as long as ...
By acknowledging and accepting the ultimate commonality, we can naturally and voluntarily develop the attitude of compassion and benevolence toward other people, other life-forms, and ...
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to ...
Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he ...
I'm not a big city guy ... there's too many people, there's too much traffic.
Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You ...
Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science.
Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.
I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill ... as well as my film job, ...
Keep in mind what choices you make because one day your going to have to face you loved ones and hear what they have to ...
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often ...
There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from different countries have married, amazing things like that. ...
I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their ...
You promised me you would never cheat on me, that you'd love me forever and we would never get a divorce." "I still love you, ...
'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.
Repentance is the first step on the path back to your relationship with God.
The world should forget about cheap oil. [The price] will keep going up and some day arrive at US$100 per barrel.
Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a ...
You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers ...
What good does it do you to go overseas, to move from city to city? If you really want to escape the things that harass ...
How apparent is it that I want to put Grom into a headlock until he goes to sleep, and yell at Mom for not loving ...
You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.
Le nez de Cle opa" tre: s'il e u" t e te plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change . Cleopatra'snose: if ...
It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration ...
Secrets can take many forms. They can be shocking or silly or soulful. They can connect us with our deepest humanity, or with people we'll ...
A good teacher always refuses to have disciples! Let everyone goes his own way, in his own path instead of following others! If the direction ...
I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either ...
I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.
Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood ...
This is how you conquer your enemies:through their ignorance of you,and through your knowledge of them.
Now he stood in the farthest end of the cave, in front of the great lion chase he had watched Thorn paint so long ago. ...
Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is ...
Shut up and listen. Research shows that people who interrupt are three times more likely to die of a heart attack than those who don't ...
The only thing better than the world's cutest cat is any dog.
Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
Georgian society can no longer be divided. I don't want to see our country's best minds leaving the country to try their luck abroad.
I need to be a vampire," she said. "and I want one of them to make it happen. Michael will do fine. I don't care ...
The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.
If you sell the Vatican and you take that money and you use it to feed every single human being on the planet, you will ...
If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is ...
See, loving heart, how He delights in you. When you lean your head on His bosom, you not only receive, but you give Him joy; ...
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
You know, I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot ...
In a relationship, when does the art of compromise become compromising?
Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it.
I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
Don't be disgusting.Don't dare me. I majored in disgusting at Gulag Community College. Lucrezia Borgia taught cooking, and Madame Defarge taught knitting. Emperor Nero taught ...