It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends

That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart.

Seventeen moons, seventeen years, Eyes where Dark or Light appears, Gold for yes and green for no, Seventeen the last to know.

From the very beginning all beings are Buddha. Like water and ice,without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas.

It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.

You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and my charisma enhances your power. Your victory doesn't require my defeat, and vice versa.

By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.