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Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

The monarchy is foremost a business, and it's important to them that the British public continue to finance the excessive luxurious lifestyles of the now quite enormous, wasteful and useless 'royal' family.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

Most of the time, it's not until we embrace our limitations that God can start to use us beyond our limitations.

The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.

We should keep in mind that Revolutions anywhere are always glad to use any help they can get, even from women. But unless women also use the Revolution to further their own interests as well as everyone else's, unless they make it consistently clear that all help given now is expected to be returned, both now and after the Revolution, they will be sold out again and again.

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.

The cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the first place.

It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.

I'd rather go to the White House Correspondents' dinner than any awards show.

The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.

The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities.

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.

For me mindfulness is like building a house, so the next time the tsunami that is depression comes I'll have a structure in place to resist it.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

If ... we choose a group of social phenomena with no antecedent knowledge of the causation or absence of causation among them, then the calculation of correlation coefficients, total or partial, will not advance us a step toward evaluating the importance of the causes at work.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

An old dog, even more than an old spouse, always feels like doing what you feel like doing.

The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

Allowing the computer to do one thing is only boring if you don't use the time that the computer saves you to do something else.

I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.