Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

Karen Maezen Miller

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Paul McCartney

There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.

Larry Hagman

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker something that's truly about freedom.

Scott Walker

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.

LL Cool J

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about presidents and he remembers more of it because everything he reads clicks in his head as fugging interesting.

John Green

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,