"Sometimes standing up for what you believe means standing down and allowing the universe to do its work."

“Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.”

“I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right.”

“In fact, I don't advocate any particular diet for anyone. I think that's a very personal decision that people have to make. I will say this, however: There are more and more studies in terms of the health benefits of veganism; there are more and more studies that are showing that a properly executed vegan diet is highly beneficial for cleansing, for detoxing, in addition to lowering the risks for and even ameliorating chronic illness. We all have our own body constitutions and cultural food ways and personal tastes that determine what will work for us.”

“I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.”

“When I was about 17 or 18, I finally admitted to myself that I wasn't going to change. I didn't know what the consequences would be, but I had the definite feeling that it was going to wreck my Disney career”

“I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.”

“I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.55

“I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything”