Our Quotes
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Gordon Lightfoot has created some of the most beautiful and lasting music of our time. He is Bob Dylan's favorite singer/songwriter - high praise from the best of us, applauded by the rest of us.
We may say we value this thing or that thing more than any other, but the volume of our actions speaks louder than our words.
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.
Wayne put me right here, that's who I get the paper wit. I hope that my success never alters our relationship.
Let us ask God to make us true in our love, to make us sacrificial beings, for it seems to me that sacrifice is only love put into action.
Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.
Nothing is forever, but there's a continuing stream of people who go through our lives and continue with us... Nothing just stops and stays... But it flows on... Like a river.
It's my job to manage my heart so that I can respond to you in love and cast out fear in our relationship.
When we are ready to make positive changes in our lives, we attract whatever we need to help us.
Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
We can want peace, but unless we are spiritually at peace ourselves, we dont mean it. It is our thoughts which keep that part of the universe where each of us stand out of or in balance.
The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it.
As a retired educator I have seen first-hand the impact a great education can have on a young person's life. I will always be a champion for public schools, our teachers, and our children.
Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.
Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you - your relationship with God.
I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here-our love will go on for generations.
Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.
Sometimes our thoughts and feelings are our most prized possessions... and then there are times to let go of your possessions and wander.
Since at the beginning and end of our lives we are so dependent on other's kindness, how can it be in ......the middle that we would neglect kindness towards others?
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.
What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.
Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament has His hands full of graces, and He is ready to bestow them on anyone who asks for them
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.
I had a simple goal in life: to be true to my parents and our country as an honorable son, a caring brother, and a good citizen.
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.
When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.
Only by taking Jesus' example into every part of our lives will we be able to win in life.
We are not imprisoned by circumstances, setbacks, mistakes or staggering defeats, we are freed by our choices.
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
Worship, from the Latin word meaning "worth-ship", is where we express God's worth to us in our lives.
Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.