We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.

William S. Burroughs

You defeated me But you won't defeat me again Because you have grown all you can grow.... but I am still growing (about Mount Everest).

Edmund Hillary

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Bill Watterson

I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm in. I can also be a beach bum - I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

Cherie Lunghi

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

Jack Kemp

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...

Alphonse Daudet, Adapted from Ju

Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.

Daniel C. Dennett

Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

A friend of my mom's was a casting director so, really as kind of a lark, I had a couple of acting jobs that had just enough exposure to give me the option to continue if I wanted to. I followed through with it.

Ben Affleck

Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

Source Unknown

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Orison Swett Marden

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Helen Hayes