"The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul."

“Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all you energies on a limited set of targets.”

“We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally.”

“The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org

“I love you between shadow and soul. I love you as the plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and carries hidden within itself the light of flowers. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. Because of you, the dense fragrance that rises from the earth lives in my body, rioting with hunger for the eternity of our victorious kisses.”

“Being close to nature, in general, helps boost a child's attention span.”

“One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”

“The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.”

Source : Joseph Jean Lanza del Vasto (1974). “Make straight the way of the Lord: an anthology of the philosophical writings of Lanza del Vasto”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

“Professional traders have always had some system or other based upon their experience and governed either by their attitude towards speculation or by their desires.”