It is a fair trade and an equal exchange: to the extent that you depart from things, thus far, no more and no less, God enters into you with all that is his, as far as you have stripped yourself of yourself in all things. It is here that you should begin, whatever the cost, for it is here that you will find true peace, and nowhere else.http://www.eckhartsociety.org/meister.htm

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Francis Bacon

Courage is a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

I'm turning 22, so I want to start getting into work that reflects where I'm at in life now.

Kimbra

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Thomas Carlyle

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

George W. Bush

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

Mae West

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Princess Diana

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.

Aldous Huxley

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Johann von Goethe

The ordinary reverence, the reverence defined and explained by the dictionary, costs nothing. Reverence for one's own sacred things--parents, religion, flag, laws and respect for one's own beliefs--these are feelings which we cannot even help. They come natural to us; they are involuntary, like breathing. There is no personal merit in breathing. But the reverence which is difficult, and which has personal merit in it, is the respect which you pay, without compulsion, to the political or religious attitude of a man whose beliefs are not yours. You can't revere his gods or his politics, and no one expects you to do that, but you could respect his belief in them if you tried hard enough; and you could respect him, too, if you tried hard enough. But it is very, very difficult; it is next to impossible, and so we hardly ever try. If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean it does nowadays, because we can't burn him.http://www.twainquotes.com/Reverence.html

Mark Twain, Following the Equato

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me.

Rosanna Arquette