There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

You don't always get what you ask for, but you never get what you don't ask for... unless it's contagious!

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

Art is the signature of civilizations.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

You cant aim a duck to death.

There is a growing strength in women, but it is in the forehead, not in the forearm.

The press frequently sneers at the hype devoted to a superstar, but the press itself is responsible for all the hype.

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

What a year to live in! Worth all other times ever known in our history or any other.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.

That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

I've been careful to keep my life separate because it's important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. I'm worth more than that.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

No I haven't and all I can say is that if it's cost $600,000, I hope we get $600,000 worth of value out of it.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.