Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity for they shall live forever. Forever.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise not too little and not too much we would have found the safest way to health.
Forgiveness is not always easy. At times it feels more painful than the wound we suffered to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet there is no peace without forgiveness.
I would like to do another piece of fiction dealing with a number of issues: Lesbian parenting the 1960's and interracial relationships in the Lesbian and Gay community.
A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
In fact technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
I'm sort of like a lame single guy in a red sports car.
My father was not a failure. After all he was the father of a president of the United States.
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion misery and death.
I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
I have found the paradox that if you love until it hurts there can be no more hurt only more love.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong but the love of money for its own sake.
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.
It is no use saying 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid but in this day and age I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.
The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day and age it is tenable to have these nods and winks and on-the-record and off-the-record briefings.
Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it you've got to start young.
All architecture is shelter all great architecture is the design of space that contains cuddles exalts or stimulates the persons in that space.
I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards but that's not the case. Sure my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16 but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
I've always said that one night I'm going to find myself in some field somewhere I'm standing on grass and it's raining and I'm with the person I love and I know I'm at the very point I've been dreaming of getting to.
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
For in reason all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
Whenever anyone says 'theoretically' they really mean 'not really.'
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could for grown-ups.
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.
Ultimately love is everything.
We can no more do without spirituality than we can do without food shelter or clothing.
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
Forgiveness leads to love and love leads to forgiveness.
Keywords : leads,forgiveness
Where I come from it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies leave alone American movies.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
When a guy tells me I'm cute it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
In passing we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.
By the age of 9 or 10 I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
When I was little I thought isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
It's challenging but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried and not waste time about it.
When your time comes to die be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best.
Medical debts are the number-one cause of bankruptcy in America.
For me singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light out of the darkness.
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Success is simple. Do what's right the right way at the right time.
Keywords : simple
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.
All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.
If my father had hugged me even once I'd be an accountant right now.
I challenge you to be dreamers; I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
The very exercise of leadership fosters capacity for it.
Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life is what keeps me moving forward.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past but by the responsibility for our future.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.
In terms of fitness and battling through cancer exercise helps you stay strong physically and mentally.
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down wrote this song and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor' it's crucial to say that.
Ours is essentially a tragic age so we refuse to take it tragically.
Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator our very self-consciousness is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.
The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
The only rock I know that stays steady the only institution I know that works is the family.
If I don't feel confident about my body I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up motivating yourself and just doing it.
Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
But let us remember at the same time government is sacred and not to be trifled with.
Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Look within. Within is the fountain of good and it will ever bubble up if thou wilt ever dig.
Deceive not thy physician confessor nor lawyer.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent those funds are well spent.
We are a big country with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.
America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.
It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough it loses all of its meaning.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries dating and religion.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
Data is not information information is not knowledge knowledge is not understanding understanding is not wisdom.
Government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the Earth.
The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in whether you can be an accountant lawyer or nurse for example.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
People are going to behave however the social norms permit and beyond that.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts his acts being seven ages.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
In the absence of justice what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
Secretly I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix but I could never quite pull it off.
I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially people would question but once patriotism got stirred up the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
But we are not going to stand by and go back to allowing people with preexisting conditions to be discriminated against go back to the situation where people can be thrown off their insurance simply because they become seriously ill or you can't get on your parents' insurance after the age of 20.
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
I don't know if you can change things but it's a drop in the ocean.
I'm dating a woman now who evidently is unaware of it.
I have always had an interest in fashion and design and I appreciate style and timelessness within my footwear and accessories both on and off the court.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn my God do you learn.
I mean I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.
If instead of a gem or even a flower we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend that would be giving as the angels give.
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired so long as we can see far enough.
Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
Men as well as women are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.
Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.
Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe.
There are three roads to ruin; women gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women the quickest is with gambling but the surest is with technicians.
Experience hath shewn that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have in time and by slow operations perverted it into tyranny.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her I'd also be marrying her former life her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
To me photography is the simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of an event.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thank God I never got in a fight. All of the jock dudes hated me but all of their girlfriends thought I was nice so they wouldn't touch me. It was infuriating to them.
When I was going for my graduate degree I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion jealousy and hatred as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare goods and services to consumers.
All men make mistakes but married men find out about them sooner.
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them and I am a poet of memory.
I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me he can work through anyone.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
The newest computer can merely compound at speed the oldest problem in the relations between human beings and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem of what to say and how to say it.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
One may know how to gain a victory and know not how to use it.
Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent there has to be something inside you that says 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
If you want to eat well in England eat three breakfasts.
A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship.
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great and every now and again they do and they are usually 70.
There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Life is painting a picture not doing a sum.
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.
If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.
Intelligence is the wife imagination is the mistress memory is the servant.
We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius but mercifully laughter intervened.
And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
We have to pray with our eyes on God not on the difficulties.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
But when will our leaders learn - war is not the answer.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Love many things for therein lies the true strength and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much and what is done in love is done well.
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million that's the bank's problem.
The new information technology Internet and e-mail have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
I prefer ordinary girls - you know college students waitresses that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl it doesn't mean we are dating.
Yeah I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive but I have photographs of her.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel so that when you yell the name will carry.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Even as kids reach adolescence they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past and our military is learning from and building on previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession education hours worked age marital status and children men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions like nursing dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.
One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves hills and fields Woods or steepy mountain yields.
I know to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
I've had a little bad bad media luck the new year. Well apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton which makes me nervous. I didn't know though.
I am not naturally that thin so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Many people are in the dark when it comes to money and I'm going to turn on the lights.
That's a big goal of mine to try and grow as much of my own food as possible.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition a voyage and not a harbor.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
Throughout my life my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
Do your work with your whole heart and you will succeed - there's so little competition.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you or they may do it.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second the Epistles; to the third the Revelation.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
No matter where I've been overseas the food stinks except in Italy.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter and I hit that awhile ago.
At a young age I was interested in comic books which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike friendship anger or pity.
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father or like me?
I didn't attend the funeral but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely drinking beer cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us on this side of the grave.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between I occupy myself as best I can.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring I hang up.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand they do less easily move against him believing that he has the gods on his side.
If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead.
We never really grow up we only learn how to act in public.
Travelling expands the mind rarely.
Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.
It is easier for women to succeed in business the arts and politics in America than in Europe.
And so you touch this limit something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power your determination your instinct and the experience as well you can fly very high.
The only way that we can reduce our financial dependence on the inflow of funds from the rest of the world is to reduce our trade deficit.
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation introduce the subject of eating.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme what's behind the emotion the meaning all that comes later.
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
No but way before that I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah that was an amazing chance. You know at my age to be able to do a music dance video very unusual.
I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects giving them limit symmetry proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.
Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010 and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
My nutritionist has done a great job in changing my diet after we established I am allergic to things like gluten - I can't eat pizza pasta and bread. I have lost some weight but my movement is sharper and I feel great.
For me going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Motherhood is the strangest thing it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Politicians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself power and glory or happiness.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science the one that heralds new discoveries is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny'
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
There's a higher form of happiness in commitment. I'm counting on it.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
American Idol transcends age gender ethnicity everything.
In my older age I've learned to take things slower because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I would never kill a living thing although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.
To err is human but to really foul things up you need a computer.
You don't want to make a steady diet of just lettuce. You don't want to make a steady diet of fried chicken.
In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.
I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
If we desire respect for the law we must first make the law respectable.
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope by a limit imposed from without but falsely identified as lying within.
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager especially and especially in the society we live in.
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
If patience is worth anything it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
Well I always had a chauffer because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
There are those who look at things the way they are and ask why I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.
In 1973 women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said Thyroid problem?
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination Imagination is the workshop of your mind capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis and I said compared to who?
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when in middle school and junior high I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
If cats were double the size they are now they'd probably be illegal.
If nominated I will not run; if elected I will not serve.
There is a single light of science and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.
The more you trust your intuition the more empowered you become the stronger you become and the happier you become.
All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books newspaper stories Web sites apps how-to videos this article you're reading even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.
When your work speaks for itself don't interrupt.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Interest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth and judgment of age.
In 1981 at age 31 I was voted the best player in basketball and the most valuable player in the league.
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Fathers are biological necessities but social accidents.
Dreams are true while they last and do we not live in dreams?
In the environmental movement every time you lose a battle it's for good but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.
All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth but it's only money they don't know how to enjoy it because they have no imagination.
If a window of opportunity appears don't pull down the shade.
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.
It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is love can flourish.