"No matter how much you change, you still got to pay the price for the things you’ve done." — Ben Affleck, American actor, born 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 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 elder, born 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 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 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 1889
"Life is the thing--the song of life—the eager plow, the thirsty knife!" — Conrad Aiken, American poet, born 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, born 1889
"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, born 1931
"Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear." — Robert Aitken, Zen teacher, born 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 1917
"Renunciation is not getting rid of the things in this world, but accepting that they pass away." — Robert Aitken, Zen teacher, born 1917