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The one thing that about me, being a healer, I just have a different kind of relationship with people. So I am defiantly a different ...

A pen transmits the voice of the soul.

Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa.To the latecomers are left the bones.

The idea that vaccines are a primary cause of autism is not as crackpot as some might wish. Autism's 60-fold rise in 30 years matches ...

Family is not an important thing, it is everything

He grinned, the skin of his mouth streching far wider that it should have done, exposing teeth as far back as his molar.

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters ...

15-Day Tear-Out Menu Plan

I have to defend my husband.

If that is scary I really don't understand you, the idea is the lesson.

Patience in our lives springs from God's power based upon our willingness to learn it.

I like very much to ride horses. I like soccer, I have had a passion for boxing since I was a child, although it would ...

We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back ...

I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury ...

Spoil all the walls with sellotape marks.

If you can dream it and visualize it, they you can achieve it.

I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be ...

Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main ...

Jack Lambert is mean and relentless wherever he goes, on and off the field! I do remember many times he would chase me in practice ...

Shock therapy has arguably created a large block of politicized people ready to vote for someone, perhaps a militarist, a quasifascist, or an old-style Communist, ...

Some infinities are simply bigger than other infinities.

I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as heart-stoppingly ...

I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of ...

My purpose in public address and in speech is really encapsulated in three C's: clear, concise, correct. No overblowing rhetoric or anything like that. As ...

It's not only joy as an act of defiance; it's business as usual as an act of defiance. This is just: Do your thing.

At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically ...

I bought all those [fitness] videos Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there ...

Trying to extricate from the long day the grain of pleasure

The top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

From all kinds of flowers,Seek teachings everywhere,Like a deer that findsA quiet place to graze,Seek Seclusion to digestAll you have gathered ...

This is heaven. You can stop praying now.

Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being ...

To be a true poet is to become God.I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, ...

I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby Show' came about. ...

Face. Walter reeled a little. The pain of the blow tingled through all his sensitive frame for a moment. Then he felt pain no longer. ...

Relish the fresh landscape of my wound, break rushes and delicate rivulets, drink blood poured on honeyed thigh.

Trust is the residue of promises fulfilled.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our ...

I am a sweet old softy, but it took toughness to get through what I went through.

Were only trying to help, but you need to punish them. In a strange way, it will make them feel better. That's the way of ...

Well, I know I'm back in America now. I've been knocked unconscious.

In fact, whenever I read something as complicated as Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and think about his having written it in longhand, I am not ...

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is ...

Venice was always one step removed from what was going on. If you were in Turin or in Milan or one of the industrial centers, ...

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

You're killing me, Rebecca," Law muttered, probably not realizing that in his case, it really was a double entendre.

Good man always stands against that.

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners

Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they give them what value they please, and we are obliged to receive them at their ...

We all have a vision, a dream to hope for. Some chase it and some wish upon it.. Who do you think, wins? the chaser ...

Family had the mineral rights on the back part of their land

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is justsomething we haul into the grave.

Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it himself. On the other hand, that which we allow him to discover ...

I'll tell you what my real dream is. I mean my absolute number one dream that will mean I die a happy man if it ...

I collect pictures of adorable puppies on my phone. I have little room for anything else.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

You may not agree, you may not care, butif you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in ...

There are no such words like "over-dreaming" or dreaming without "biometric verification". You can dream over and over again! You don't need a certificate to ...

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life ...

God expects of us only what He Himself has supplied.

If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we ...

What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you 'turn up missing'?

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It ...

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to ...

What a lot of people don't understand is that the music that they're hearing is usually months, and in some cases, years old. So I'm ...

Passionless leaders cost everyone who follows them.

I'd like to do one of those jumps they do in the movies; in a car, over a bridge, in the air with a huge ...

I shall strip away layer after layer of grime the toffee-colored varnish and caked soot left by a lifetime of dissembling until I come to ...

First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally ...

So many fear death - spending their precious waking hours discussing it - while failing to notice that deep sleep is no different. It's as ...

Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our ...

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

Don't give up! I believe in you all.A person's a person, no matter how small!And you very small persons will not have to dieIf you ...

Our heart's desire should be to worship God; we have been designed by God for this purpose. If we don't worship God, we'll worship something ...

Anyone who wants to offer me as mushy, earthy, crunchy a role as they can, I will probably take it. In real life, I cry ...

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.

All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that ...

According to Washington insiders, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan could be the next official to leave the Bush administration. McClellan says he'd like to ...

I had always believed government was not a fungus: It could survive in sunshine.

I was into playing American music, especially the blues.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.

I might have to take the 12 steps to Workaholics Anonymous.

The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, ...

I saw Brahms's Hungarian Rhapsody on television when I was two. Tom and Jerry were playing it together. I thought, 'Hey, if a cat can ...

You need not strive to become your greater purpose.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

We have been troubled about the world, and had almost lost faith in man; it helps to think about the long history of the earth, ...

Olympism ... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

Defined purpose oriented actions, not actions, are the attributes of success.

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances.

Theater opened up a whole new world for me. It was a freedom I'd never known before.