If someone responds to insult like a rock, what has the abuser gained with his invective?

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

“Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off.” 

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.

“I wonder: If you think of someone you love, do you become a little more like them? I would like to think so.” 

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?” 

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.

Love risks everything and asks for nothing.

The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

Touched. How did you get here? Close your eyes… and surrender!

“I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...” 

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. 

Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.