“Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.”

Live constructively and live optimistically.

What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.

If you’re involved in an accident and you’re at fault $500,000 may not be enough. Do you really want to lose your house because you failed to spend an extra couple of hundred bucks?

Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.

Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.

The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life.

Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

What the heck do you think I’m doing? I’m laying these darn bricks! He then walked over to the second bricklayer and asked the same question.

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

The best that can be said of you is that you got saved.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.

A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.

I’m the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!

I am trying my hardest to stay away from the horror movies just because I feel like people are thinking that’s what I do, that I’m a scream queen. I’d like to stay away from that.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave ‘s narrowness, though not its peace.

God’s jewels are often sent us in rough packages and by dark liveried servants, but within we find the very treasures of the King’s palace and the Bridegroom’s Love.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave ‘s narrowness, though not its peace.

Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!

Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that’s a powerful message in this time of political strife.

Hold on to the ones who accept your rainbow as well as dark skies.