Son Quotes - Page 87

I began teaching my son how to shoot when he was two, starting with the basics of a BB rifle. My theory is that kids get into trouble because of curiosity—if you don’t satisfy it, you’re asking for big problems. If you inform them and carefully instruct them on safety when they’re young, you avoid a lot of the trouble. My son has learned to respect weapons. I’ve always told him, if you want to use a gun, come get me. There’s nothing I like better than shooting.

A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.

Enlightenment doesnt occur from sitting around visualizing images of light, but from integrating the darker aspects of the Self into the conscious personality.

I don't have interns. I don't have a manager. I don't have assistants. I don't have a secretary. I can't figure out Outlook Express. I'm the worst person in the world answering e-mails, and my phone is probably the oldest, most battered phone you can find. So I just talk to people.

Everything is an experiment until it has a deadline. That gives it a destination, context, and a reason.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

Coexistence and personal peace are at the heart of global peace and harmony.

Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

If the reason for doing something is that everyone else is doing it, it's not a good enough reason.

Treason seldom dwells with courage.

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?

There's only two kinds of music: the blues and zippety doo-dah.

I don't get boy bands these days. Thye don't write their own songs and everything is choreographed from their dance moves to how they have sex with each other after the show.

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.

It is the duty of all to support and side with Dharma. All must fight and support Dharma regardless of their personality, background, status.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.