Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you.

If better were within, better would come out.

I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.

Carmen will always be free.

Wings are like dreams. Before each flight, a bird takes a small jump, a leap of faith, believing that its wings will work. That jump can only be made with rock solid feet.

Each day, the goal is to receive knowledge and remove ignorance. This reveals what we all search for. Wisdom.

It's not what you learn, it's the way you learn it.

I wonder in what way I would function as a person, in a society without ever attending school. I'd be myself.

Why study things of no use? To learn you don't need it and concentrate your efforts on what is important to you.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

There's a reason why golfers walk forward to their next shot. It's to move on.

Compassion brings us closer to each other.

All matters being spiritual

Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush.

Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish.

We have to make a really cold judgement. Would the consequence of civil war be more devastating than the consequences of staying the course?.