Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

Don't focus on the problem, focus on the PURPOSE.

Always remember who you are. Know that you are never required to apologize to anyone for being yourself.

On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data or tamper with it.

Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.

I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.