I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

When our inner self connects to our work and our work to our inner self, the work knows no limit, for the inner self knows no limit.

The system is not working. That is how a paradigm shift begins: the established way of seeing the world no longer functions.

Our self-expression is meant to be a manifestation of the silence of our hearts.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

I should like to know what sacrifices they make. I think it's the children who make the sacrifices. When I want to eat gooseberries and am not allowed to, the sacrifice is _mine_ not _Mother's_.

I couldn't write—or wouldn't write, at any rate—unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want to think or talk about - which I see as a positive thing.

Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

Shkodran Mustafi is a great choice, he's a great defender with lots of experience. He played with the German national team so we know his quality.

We see government's mission as fostering and enabling the important realms - our businesses, service clubs, Little Leagues, churches - to flourish.