Quotations

"Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with peaceful mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never leaves."

— Joseph Goldstein, American Vipassana teacher, born 1944

"A healthy self and an empty self are not contradictory; it just appears so because we use the same language to describe two different things. The whole path of meditation is about understanding that the self as an unchanging entity is a fiction, an illusory mental construct."

— Joseph Goldstein, American Vipassana teacher, born 1944

"An interviewer once asked Mother Teresa what she says to God when she prays: I don’t say anything, she replied. I just listen. Then the interviewer asked her what God says to her: He doesn’t say anything, He just listens. And if you don’t understand that, I can’t explain it to you."

— Joseph Goldstein, American Vipassana teacher, born 1944

"There is no profit, if in the process, we destroy the soul."

— Samuel H. Golter, Russian born physician, born 1890

"It takes the black keys and the white keys both, to make perfect harmony."

— Benny Goodman, American jazz musician, born 1909

"What we need is Star Peace and not Star Wars."

— Mikhail Gorbache, Soviet politician, born 1931

"I flew on Air Force Two for eight years, and now I have to take off my shoes to get on an airplane."

— Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, born 1948

"Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us."

— Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, born 1948

"Frankly, if 'American Idol' was the way I'd have to audition as a singer, I'd be standing behind the counter in a 5 & 10 right now. I couldn't have done it that way."

— Lesley Gore, American singer, born 1946

"I want to start where language ends."

— Antony Gormley, English sculptor, born 1950

"Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake."

— Antony Gormley, English sculptor, born 1950

"Masters of marriage are not those who never have conflict, it's those who know how to repair conflict as often as necessary to return to connection."

— John Mordechai Gottman, American psychologist, born 1942

"Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous."

— Frederic Goudy, American type designer, born 1865

"When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all."

— Frederic Goudy, American type designer, born 1865