Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.
Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.
I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits.
Both Frankenstein and the Hulk are looked at as horrific, but they're just trying to find their way, like all of us.
It is essential for politicians to make a connection with us, as Franklin Roosevelt did, as Teddy Roosevelt did, as John F. Kennedy did, as Ronald Reagan did.
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.
I cannot, or will not, take the freedoms this country offers for granted. But these freedoms have come with a price so many times. The sacrifices made by our veterans are reminders to us of this.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
The French revolution taught us the rights of man.
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years later Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
I want to see us move from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable economy - if not in my lifetime, then in the lifetime of my children.
Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.
Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.
Let us recommit to supporting every girl to develop her skills, enter the workforce on equal terms, and reach her full potential.
