And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present -- our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love -- everything that moves us most deeply.

Jack Kornfield

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

Sara Gruen

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Mark Twain

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

David E. Kelley

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Mark Twain

The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

What a nice night for an evening.

Steven Wright

Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Doreen Valiente

A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.

Omar Khayyam

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

Samuel Adams

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Christopher Lasch

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

Emily Dickinson