Meditation Quotes

Art is the way I process the world around me.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

If you want to feel good,

you have to go out and do some good.

I have always been an old

line Henry Clay Whig.

If the world comes to an end,

I want to be in Cincinnati.

Everything comes there ten years later.

Timing beats speed,

precision beats power.

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

I was lucky that I met

the right mentors

and teachers at

the right moment.

Don’t wait for someone else to take action;

report the truth,

even when it’s difficult.

I had practiced with the team,

and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri.

They made it quite clear to the Army that

they would not play a team with a black player on it.

Instead of telling me the truth,

the Army gave me leave to go home.

Vulnerability is the core of art.

A single death is a tragedy;

a million deaths is a statistic.

All wars signify the failure of

conflict resolution mechanisms,

and they need post

war

rebuilding of faith, trust and

confidence.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon

the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Healing rain is a real

touch from God. It could

be physical healing or

emotional or whatever.

I do not believe that civilization

will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb.

Perhaps two thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

It is the duty of every astronomer to dedicate his life to

understanding the cosmos.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Prayer doesn't just change

things

it changes us.

If we are diligent in

seeking God, slowly and

surely we become

better people.