He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

LoveEmbracing Tao, you become embraced.Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.Clearing your vision, you become clear.Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.Opening your heart, you become accepted.Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.Bearing and nurturing,Creating but not owning,Giving without demanding,Controlling without authority,This is love.

Lao Tzu

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Thomas Jefferson

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

Carl Sagan

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Alexander Pope

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

Cato The Elder

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

Trent Reznor

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.

George Mikes

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they -- at least the ones that I know personally -- have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

Winona Ryder

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Alan Watts

I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that.

Melanie Chisholm