When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

The fact is five months ago this was an issue that people weren't really talking that much about. Because of the president's leadership, because he's brought it to people's attention, it's now a top issue.

Ken Mehlman

I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.

Valentino Rossi

Don't try to leave for there's so very much to do, and you still have over eight hundred years to go on the first job.' 'But why do only unimportant things?' 'Think of all the trouble it saves. If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing.

Norton Juster

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

Louis Macneice

Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.

Source Unknown

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Juan Montalvo

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

Donzella Michele Malone

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

George Bernard Shaw

The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

Pir Vilayat Khan

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

James Madison

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.

Adam Clarke