In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

It appears to me 2012 isn't a spiritual awakening, but instead, a human one. It is the disillusionment from the nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries and the empowerment of our true selves.

Steve Maraboli

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

Xenophon

Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.

Joshua Foer

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Elvis Presley

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Theodore Bikel

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

Mason Cooley

A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.

James Anthony Froude

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Our lives teach us who we are.

Salman Rushdie

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

Mignon McLaughlin

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

Mark Haddon

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Jim Hodges