And Quotes
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the way, make no excuses and place no blame.
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.
Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.
Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.
If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices: 1-Totally accept it. 2- Change it. 3-Remove myself from the situation. That is taking responsibility for my life.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths.
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.
I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off.
Once you stop clinging and let things be, you'll be free, even of birth and death. You'll transform everything.
You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
There can never be any real opposition between religion and science; for the one is the complement of the other.
Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.
Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.
I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design.
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams... Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.
That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.