Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

O Woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain coy and hard to please And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou!

Success is achieved twice. Once in the mind and the second time in the real world.

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

If I could have just 1 per cent of the money spent on global armaments, no one in this world would go to bed hungry.

I am showing solidarity while being different. Or if you prefer, I am being different while being in solidarity.

What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.