The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also.

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

Paula Poundstone

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

Luigi Russolo

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Diversity in the world is a basic characteristic of human society, and also the key condition for a lively and dynamic world as we see today.

Jinato Hu

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

Henri Nouwen

And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Harvey Korman

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty

William Shakespeare

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Maya Angelou

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.

Charles Darwin

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Stanislav Grof

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte