"If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it."

“But as Shakespeare’s Richard II boasts, ‘Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm off from an anointed king.”

Source : Leanda de Lisle, Leanda Lisle (2013). “Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family”, p.27, PublicAffairs

“I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.”

“If someone is there to believe in you, to care about you and support you, amazing things can happen.”

“American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.”

“What I was able to bring to the Christian part of it was the humanism and the humanistic point of view. It was the hook in terms of being able to make that adjustment. I wasn't born Buddhist, so I do have some other traditions to pull from.”

“My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.”

“Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.”