Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

Johnny Depp

I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Josh Billings

?We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

Thomas Jefferson

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Beau Bridges

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Queen Victoria

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

Ron Silver

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Nicolas Chamfort

Between the finite and the infinite The missing link of Love has left a void. Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join In one continued chain of endless life.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.

Bill Richardson