What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.
No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life.
What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?
Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening. And their smiles are just politeness.
I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.
It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
I trust Cuba as a principled country. Cuba's strength is that it has been steadfast in its commitment to the principles of liberation, freedom, of resistance to the kind of institutionalized terrorism that the United States government does every day.
Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate
What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?
It's very unfortunate that war has always been and probably always will be a part of human beings on this planet. It's a terrible thing.