We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.


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If you kneel before God, you will stand before men.
LEONARD RAVENHILL
Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit. That'...
ELMORE LEONARD
Live Long and Prosper
LEONARD NIMOY
If I meet God, I hope she's female. I'm touched by the power of women. I'm married to a feminist. An...
LEONARD NIMOY
I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once ...
LEONARD NIMOY
I AM CONVINCED

I am convinced
That if all mankind
Could only gather together LEONARD NIMOY
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
LEONARD NIMOY
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
LEONARD NIMOY
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
ELMORE LEONARD
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all ...
ELMORE LEONARD
Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and comm...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.
GEORGE LEONARD
Men give advice; God gives guidance.
LEONARD RAVENHILL
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The be...
GEORGE LEONARD
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
LEONARD BRANDWEIN
Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
GEORGE LEONARD
“The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that...
LEONARD RAVENHILL
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
LEONARD ORR
While we often huddle in groups of like-minded people, those with faith blaze a trail that threatens...
LEONARD RAVENHILL
The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
LEONARD NEAL
The simplest single-celled organism oscillates to a number of different frequencies, at the atomic, ...
GEORGE LEONARD
History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a pa...
GEORGE LEONARD
If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twen...
STEW LEONARD
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
GLORIA LEONARD
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must ...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, a...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
When the thunder rumbles,
Now the age of gold is dead.
When the dreams we've clung to
Tryin...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
A customer who complains is my best friend.
STEW LEONARD
Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
GLORIA LEONARD
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of th...
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Clarity affords focus.
THOMAS LEONARD
Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we ha...
LEONARD MLODINOW
My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregati...
LEONARD NIMOY
A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming - telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen ho...
LEONARD SUSSKIND
It was a great feeling to be named an All-Star starter, to know that my hard work is paying off and ...
KAWHI LEONARD
Well, first of all the Dominion Bureau of Statistics made a survey in the spring of 1970, which show...
LEONARD WOODCOCK
If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the...
LEONARD LAUDER
It seems hopelessly improbable that any particular rules accidentally led to the miracle of intellig...
LEONARD SUSSKIND
'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our...
LEONARD MLODINOW
Boston was a great city to grow up in, and it probably still is. We were surrounded by two very impo...
LEONARD NIMOY
Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land busines...
LEONARD BOSWELL