The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies – all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.
Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. ‘Black Rain’ was very much about choices. The message – we are what we chose to be.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Until we are all free, we are none of us free.
Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish, and despair almost consumed us.
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Praised be You, my Lord, through our Sister, Mother Earth, who sustains and governs us, producing varied fruits with coloured flowers and herbs.
Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.
A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Don’t get caught up in the ‘look’ thing. Sometimes, we as men and women, the first thing that attracts us to someone is their physical appearance, and that’s not always a good thing because what’s good on the outside is not always good on the inside.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Beauty is about what’s inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.
Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It’s a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Little things console us because little things afflict us.
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
I grew up in Oklahoma and Missouri, and I just loved film. My folks would take us to the drive-in on summer nights, and we’d sit on the hood of the car. I just had this profound love for storytelling.
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
There is more that unites us than divides us.
Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.
Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
My role in society, or any artist’s or poet’s role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.
The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.
The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
