Buddha Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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Life is like unto a long journey with a heavy burden.
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I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one's true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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When I'm not on the road, I try to intake about 300 grams of protein a day, which is a lot. I got really into how your body absorbs it and how you feel and how crazy it is when you intake that much food and actually feel better, your brain works better, and you actually lose weight even though you're eating more. It's so methodical.
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'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
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Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
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I'm prone to breaking out on my chest and back because I work out a lot.
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My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
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My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.
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I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.
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When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.
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I don't believe in deadlines, I don't believe in telling the enemy when we're going to withdraw.
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When you are practicing, do not just do that for the sake of doing. Learn to reflect while you are practising. Make your mind and brain observe and relearn what you are doing. Doing is mechanical; learning is dynamic.
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No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
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Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.
