They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

Jimmy Carter

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

George Bancroft

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Luther Burbank

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Barbara Kingsolver

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!--Hamlet (I, v, 106)

William Shakespeare

There are (or is) indeed no contradiction between science and religion, the fields of which are different, and which, far from mutually fighting and persecute, must, on the contrary, complete each other.

African Spir

Right now, if you're interested in being a dramatic actor, they're not making that many just regular dramas. Movies have to have some other thing going on.

Ethan Hawke

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

Francis Wright

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. [...] The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

Oscar Wilde

In the spring of life, in the flower of youth, Everything is bright and new.In the summer of life, Time of growth and change, Each day brings new dreams to pursue.In the autumn of life,

C.A. Schlea, The Fifth Season