I am glad you are happy–but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never...

As long as my heart’s still in it, I’ll keep going. If the passion’s there, why stop?…There’ll likely be a point of diminishing returns, a point where my strength will begin to wane. Until then,...

By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I – unused to your ways though I am – would...

In your thirties something strange starts to happen. It’s a mere hiccup at first, an instant of hesitation. How old are you? Oh, I’m — you start confidently, but then you stop. You were going...

I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is. A great man, he was. A...

There are only certain intervals of time when life of any sort is possible in an expanding universe and we can practise astronomy only during that habitable time interval in cosmic history.

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always...

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain: ‘This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is...

The Yorubas have a saying, here, my translation in English–a poor fool is a bigger fool rich. In other words, money only allows and enables you to be more of who you are. My bigger...

Happiness is not something to be pursued, it is something met, an encounter. Most encounters, however, have a sequel; this is their promise. The encounter with happiness has no sequel. All is there instantly. Happiness...

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen...

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.

It’s not wise to seek the revenge and forget to love.

[T]he strongest defense of the humanities lies not in the appeal to their utility — that literature majors may find good jobs, that theaters may economically revitalize neighborhoods — but rather in the appeal to...

Have you reckon’d a thousand acres much? have you reckon’d the earth much? Have you practis’d so long to learn to read? Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop...

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

The birds bark my name, and I meow theirs in return. I may be a bit mixed up about life, but not about love. Or maybe I mixed that up.

What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.

I don’t want to stand in naked silence, pathetically unaware of how to be.

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the...

Love is the universe.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was areal mask so there was no mask and there was no face for...

And when life’s sweet fable ends,Soul and body part like friends;No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;A kiss, a sigh, and so away.

Life can surprise you. You want something with every ounce of blood that flows in your veins, and then one day it’s yours. Right there before you. Everything. You break out in a cold sweat...

A successful person’s life is made up of a time when he gets out of bed, and a time he goes to bed; and in-between them is filled up with a time that he makes...

I realised that life had changed us both. But somehow, instead of heading into the same direction, we were rapidly diverging from a common point, until the link between us was fast fading away.

Sen. Dole can avoid this fight if he simply stands up and says, ‘Listen, I ran as a pro-life candidate. I’m committed to Ronald Reagan’s plank in that platform. I do not want a battle...

If you aren’t ready, you spend your whole life perseverating on that one situation, getting it wrong time and again. I like to think I am a woman who learns her lesson, but the trick...

Only when a man’s life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy

There is only one truth, and that is love, all others are a byproduct.

Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words….

Beautiful feelings soar freely, while true care roots deeply. Real love can only bedefined by them both.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while...

As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life – a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough...

It made me very sad, that question. Sad and defeated. Because I knew she knew why I was thinking about that woman—I was thinking about my own tendencies toward aloneness and I thought I could...

The only things flawless about me are my flaws.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

We need to defend the interests of those whom we’ve never met and never will.

There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy.

I trutly believe we are a rollercoaster, we are up, down have twist´s, but at the end, you discover you had join it.

When you’re in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don’t care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it’s over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It...

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to...

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

Good spiritual habits and routines turn into better lives.

Love as if you were born to just love and have nothing else to do in this universe.

life is other, always there,further off, beyond you andbeyond me, always on the horizon,life which unlives us and makes us strangers,that invents our face and wears it away

In a day it happens for once in my mind that you are the only one I have waited for