C. N. Lester Quotes

The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.

Truth can be found by a process of eliminating wrong thoughts, which are thoughts of limitation. When all thoughts of limitation are eliminated, what remains is our natural, unlimited, Self.

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us.

The greatest happiness we can give to a mate comes from helping him or her to more understanding of Truth.

Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.

What is joy? Joy is nothing but the Self. When desires are fulfilled, the mind is stilled. This allows the Self to shine forth and that is what we call joy.

Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

When I won the Derby on Never Say Die I went home and cut the lawn. I haven't cut the lawn since.

Eating's going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.

We've believed for 50 years that the Japanese are small Americans who wanted to be like us. They are not.

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

The first casualty in every war is truth.

It's obvious that five days is just enough to give one a false impression of any country.

Im pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.

I've always believed the New Left is rank.

(Punk rock is) lunging after some glimpse of a new and better world.

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Many times you never know what's going to happen. You'll play songs that you never thought you were going to play.

I always tell my students when you're going to be a jazz musician the first thing you've got to do is be a professional musician, and that means you have to feed yourself with the instrument.

When we went into the New England states, people were talking about the new sound of Flatt & Scruggs, but we had been doing that sound for 20 years.

Attain to the place where no one and no thing can disturb you.

When one really loves, one can never be hurt.

The original state for all Beings is Love. Out troubles are due only to our covering over thus natural state.

After winning the Derby aged just 18-Why all the fuss? After all, the Derby is just another race.

Better a pink bottom than a black soul.

Economists are always recommending the elimination of this or that market imperfection ... no astrophysicist recommends the elimination of planets that he does not like.

No sauce equals appetite.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

The extravagant and ostentatious lifestyles that pass for charisma in a time when almost anybody talks about charisma but if you think about it there's precious little to be seen.

It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

There's nothing bad; there's just making errors on the way back Home.

The facade is the ego. It is motivated by our seeking love. The only reward is frustration, as it is only by loving that one finds love.

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

I thought I'd be back in baseball, but I didn't know when.

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. —Jenna Richards

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.