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Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
If you have a common purpose and an environment in which people want to help others succeed, the problems will be fixed quickly.
It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.
Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turning procreation into manufacture.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.
We should be about more than just selling chicken: we should be a part of our customers' lives and the communities in which we serve.
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream.
As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.