Day Quotes

In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

Just get up there and let it rip!

It is only through religion that communism can be achieved, and has been achieved over and over.

Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work.

The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men's and women's earnings for the same work.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature

If you aren't cute, you may as well be clever.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

It is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.

Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever fall in love again like I had with Gideon. For better or worse, he was my soulmate. The other half of me. In many ways, he was my reflection.

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.

You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

Having family responsibilities and concerns just has to make you a more understanding person.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

I've always played music because it just feels right and have been grateful for everything I have and the shows that I play. Even when I was playing coffee shops; it's how its always been.

And the prince who had once been a bear pulled close the girl who had once had no name, and kissed her.

People are demanding so much of me. They really want to pigeonhole me.

It is people who are important, not the masses.

It is penance to work, to give oneself to others, to endure the pinpricks of community living.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

So how as a nation can we sit around and eat Mexican food, and drink beer and make friends? That's the question. If we can do that on a broader scale, I think we'll come out of it all right.

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.