I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.
Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.
Chase away sorrow by living
He looked good, like sin in a suit.
Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the. . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.
I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.
Should any Iraqi officer or soldier receive an order from Saddam Hussein. . . . don't follow that order. Because if you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal.
Speaking biologically, fruit in a slightly shriveled state is holding its respiration and energy consumption down to the lowest possible level. It is like a person in meditation: his metabolism, respiration, and calorie consumption reach an extremely low level. Even if he fasts, the energy within the body will be conserved. In the same way, when mandarin oranges grow wrinkled, when fruit shrivels, when vegetables wilt, they are in the state that will preserve their food value for the longest possible time.
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
President Obama , I guess, is starting to confess to some of his anxieties. In a recent interview, President Obama said, 'I miss being anonymous. ' He said, 'In the old days, I could blend in with all the other Hawaiian Barack Hussein Obamas. '