"Philosophy became a gloomy science, in the labyrinth of which people vainly tried to find the exit, called The Truth."

“True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that you are detached from that which you encounter. At the same time, real nonattachment means not clinging to things or people. It means dropping the idea that if you don't have this or if you can't get that, your life will be a catastrophe.”

“Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of the impressive and the gorgeous, and rests there. Accuracy is not necessary except in the case of aggressive, acquisitive natures, when it manifests itself in a desire to seize. True controlling sensuousness cannot be manifested in the most active dispositions, nor again in the most accurate.”

“You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep...”

“The spirit of the drum is something that you feel but cannot put your hands on, It does something to you from the inside out . . . It hits people in so many different ways. But the feeling is one that is satisfying and joyful. It is a feeling that makes you say to yourself, ' I'm glad to be alive today! I'm glad to be part of this world!”

“Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.”

“Be thankful for it all. And beyond your many blessings, will be many, many more.”

“As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.”

“Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they are squeamish or prudish. It is because if people knew what Abortion really looked like, it would destroy their pretence that it is a civilized answer to the problem of what to do about unwanted babies.”

Source : "A calamity for women... just as the doctor predicted" by Peter Hitchens, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 27, 2007.