Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

We are tomorrow's past.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; but where and how that something comes I leave to Thee, who knoweth best.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Saddle your dreams before you ride 'em.

We are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood echoes of the past reflex echoes of the future and echoes of the soil these last reverberating through our filmiest dreams like the sound of thunder in a blossoming orchard.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.

My feeling is that when you're managing a baseball team, you have to pick the right people to play and then pray a lot.

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

When people get married young, you don't really understand the true definition of marriage.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

What we should be doing is responsibly addressing the primary drivers of our debt and deficit issues.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Real vision demands that we make tough choices. Real vision is responsible and it is paid for.

Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only.

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it.

My greatest fear: repetition.

There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'