Fear controls you.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

Jonathan Edwards

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

Nicholas Sparks

It is better that some should be unhappy than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Samuel Johnson

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've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

Douglas MacArthur

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Jessamyn West

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

I love poking fun at myself. I have a rather mean sense of humor.

Alton Brown

Blessed be God that Thou hast filled the soul of Thy servant with joy and peace in believing.

Christopher Love

America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do with America's growth rate is a brutal work schedule.

Fareed Zakaria

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

Daphne Zuniga