When you train your thoughts to dissolve as they arise, they will cross your mind like a bird crosses the sky--without leaving a trace.

an old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past.

When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die.

The existence of such a war chest might go far to strengthen our prestige and frighten off any would be assailant.

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time.

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.