I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

Ricardo Montalban

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Evelyn Underhill

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Mahatma Gandhi

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy

My uncle ordered popoversfrom the restaurant's bill of fare.And, when they were served,he regarded them with a penetrating stare.Then he spoke great words of wisdomas he sat there on that chair:To eat these things, said my uncle,You must exercise great care.You may swallow down what's solid,but you must spit out the air!And as you partake of the world's bill of fare,that's darned good advice to follow.Do a lot of spitting out the hot air.And be careful what you swallow.

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

John Cleese

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

Christy Turlington

But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

Anita Roddick

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

C. E. M. Joad

There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.

Terry Pratchett