"No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done." — Ben Affleck, American actor, born August 15, 1972
"It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up." — Ben Affleck, American actor, born August 15, 1972
"The job of the grandmother is to span humanity’s greatest distance--the 14 inches from our heads to our hearts." — Grandma Aggie, Native American spiritual elder, born September 11, 1924
"Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel." — Kiran Ahluwalia, Indian singer, born July 1965
"It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the lion lies down with the lamb." — Conrad Aiken, American poet, born August 5, 1889
"The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep." — Conrad Aiken, American poet, born August 5, 1889
"Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only." — Conrad Aiken, American poet, born August 5, 1889
"Life is the thing--the song of life—the eager plow, the thirsty knife!" — Conrad Aiken, American poet, born August 5, 1889
"Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead." — Conrad Aiken, American poet, died August 17, 1973
"Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people." — Alvin Ailey, American dancer, died December 1, 1989
"Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear." — Robert Aitken, Zen teacher, born June 19, 1917
"Watching a spider at work, I vow with all beings to cherish the web of the universe: touch one point and everything moves." — Robert Aitken, Zen teacher, born June 19, 1917
"Renunciation is not getting rid of the things in this world, but accepting that they pass away." — Robert Aitken, Zen teacher, died August 5, 2010