I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

Overcome evil with good. St. Paul

Bible

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

George William Russell, The Livi

Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.

John Boyd Orr

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.

John Dryden

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who .

Terry Pratchett

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around.

Kris Allen

Tell the truth now Your heart is a strange little orange to peel What's the deal?

St. Vincent

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

John Hawley

I always envisioned myself being a rapper and being in the game and having success, but you never know what it feels like or how you're going to be when you're there.

Wiz Khalifa

She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

William Shakespeare

The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty.

Stephenie Meyer

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room

Blaise Pascal