Dalai Lama Quotes
Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
Quotes to Explore
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I had this idea that I wanted to do this mixture of visions of African American women and visions of African American men. And call it 'The Men' and call it 'The Women' and show different faces of these two people.
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I wish I wasn't so fragile . 'Cos I know that I'm not easy to handle
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Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.
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One of the great challenges of being a modern historian is interviewing multiple people who were all there for something, some event. No one's version matches up 100% with other people's, even if it's three or four people on a conference call.
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Great changes start with individuals; the basis of world peace is inner peace in the hearts of individuals.
