I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere... There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.