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I mean every word. You own me. You always have.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile ...

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science ...

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hypeI'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

Work is love made plain, whether man's work or woman's work.

I love New York. A part of me will always be here. What can I say.

To get, simply release, and then gently invite.

While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that ...

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for ...

'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, ...

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that ...

The beautiful thing about faking a news show is the topicality is delayed.

Cuban-heeled stockings; not the sort of thing you could buy for another man's wife.

The best I can hope for is the occasional moment of loose happy freedom - found usually with Harp but once or twice on this ...

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug ...

Love is more than love, it is the ultimate passion and power.

We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

When we are consciously aware of being used as broken bread and poured out wine, we have yet another level to reach - a level ...

I'm telling them that if you love a person, the opinion of the world isn't important. It's how you feel that matters. Because in the ...

My hair was slicked down with a part. But that was before I discovered the blow-dryer. Now I'm fabulous.

Who's the informant, Ennis?" He wiggled a battery cable. "Not sure. They're protecting his identity like the Pope protects perverts. Why?

I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault ...

I think that iTunes is opened up a whole new world to me, and I never thought it would. If you've got a day off ...

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language.

MALTHUSIAN, adj. Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines, who believed in artificially limiting population, but found that it could not be done by talking. Herod ...

Dreams are necessary to life.

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

I will never turn to God.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism ...

The Devil went down to Georgia, he was lookin' for a soul to steal. He was in a bind, 'cos he was way behind; he ...

I used to walk in the Bowery in the early 1980s, and it was not safe. It went from this to Disneyland under Giuliani and ...

It's part of growing up, I suppose ... you always have to leave something behind you.

Everybody's the same. People are all the same. But it's the prerogative of youth to think it's not so.

It was a cycle of whimpers and bangs, gruesome beginnings and bloody ends.

Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but ...

Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably.[...]She preferred [...] to go to sleep at once, sleep now being one of ...

I have used the laws of this country just like the greatest people that you read about every day in business have used the laws ...

The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action ...

It was the pink elephant in the room, the thunderous fart in the elevator.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

You must fetter his soul before you bind your body to his in lovemaking,

There's a greatness in not caring what people think

Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddamn

I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it ...

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By ...

You can't fall out of the basement.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

When we are ready, [Jesus Christ's] pure love instantly moves across time and space, reaches down, and pulls us up from the depths of any ...

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with ...

The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

Perhaps it was the demands of having to take on me and the farm that left so little time for the gentler things. Such small ...

Every time she allowed her gaze to wander to the group at the piano, she found Lord Wentworth's eyes on her. In the end it ...

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

Delight is a subjective reason for praying, but it is a valid one.

The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is ...

The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete ...

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

All science is transcendental or else passes away.

I got my lips chewed off by a dingo!

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, But on the viewless wings of Poesy,

Even in solitude,silence stays,like a loyal supporter,with its unbroken presence.

Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels ...

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.

One Life With Many Names, Childhood, Boyhood, Manhood And Old, Then? Then! All Unknown, Uncertain Destination ...

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

Running Doesn't Change Anything...Dying Does.

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute, and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best ...

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

They kissed like they needed each other's mouths like it was their last meal, smashing desperately together.

Artists are the people among us who realize creation didn't stop on the sixth day.

Start with a big fat lump in your throat. Start with a profound sense of wrong, a deep homesickness, a crazy lovesickness, and run with ...

If we want to be used for the benefit of mankind-helping the Lord with his mission-we must ourselves be in a position to be used ...

Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell people what they ...

Once I get the horse where he's responding and working for ya and has a good frame of mind and a good attitude, it's not ...

Wow, girlfriend, you're incompatible with life!And here I thought I was just incompatible with pink.

Nothing is menial where there is love.

I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?

I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions ...

People wind up killing what they love most.

Let arms be still and voices low,A million eyes watch as you go.A silken door your pathway ends,There fire and light will be your friends.Then ...

My family suffered very major losses during the Second World War, that's true. In my father's family, there were five brothers. I think four of ...

The beauty of sorrow is superior to the beauty of life.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.

Yes?" said Clary, her voiced sharply edged. "Since I found out what? That he's a killer transvestite who molests cats?" "No wonder that cat of ...

It's the American leadership that has not played the role it should be playing and that leaders in other countries have been playing.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same ...

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of ...

There were frogs all right, thousands of them. Their voices beat the night, they boomed and barked and croaked and rattled. They sang to the ...

I was trying to foment a little dissension.' He paused. 'No, that's too flippant. How about trying to make the system less warlike - injecting ...

We are ready in short, to dedicate our strength to serving the needs, rather than the fears, of the world.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had ...