You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.

Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile.

Jan Van Ruysbroeck

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Honore de Balzac

Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

Source Unknown

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Helen Keller

I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.

Keith Urban

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.

Oscar Wilde

We come to reason, not to dominate. We do not seek to have our way, but to find a common way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us

Allan Lokos

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Adam Clayton