Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

We must not only be patient with others, infinitely patient, but also with our own poor selves.

The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived.

It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action.

Open your heartlike a beautiful flower, one petal at a time, love, compassion and kindness, to spread the beautyall around you and feel the joy.

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward… slightly umm… I was never the cool kid at school.

Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger! Once you were young──now you are even younger.

And the look on her face as she opened the door Was like an old joke told by a friend. It'd taken ten more years but she'd found her smile And I watched the corners start to bend.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

A woman should live with two men; one more a lover and the other more a friend.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.