How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death the pain is over. Yeah I guess it is a friend.
He was a dreamer a thinker a speculative philosopher or as his wife would have it an idiot.
All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.
Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is to a landscape artist not only a plant - rare unusual ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color a shape a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Happiness is a direction not a place.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same but the medical practice changes.
There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.
I grew up with no money. My kids will grow up with a lot of money and so it's really important to me and it will always be a part of my parenting to keep them conscientious and connected socially to other people.
Like all pure creatures cats are practical.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom then who can you trust?
I get along with guys; most of my friends are guys. It's easier to trust men sometimes. I only have a few close girlfriends that I trust.
If I felt in the event of a royal wedding inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't I'd ignore it.
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
Life an age to the miserable and a moment to the happy.
We live in an age in an era where there is so much negativity there is so much violence in the world there is so much unrest and people are at war that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.
In my cranky old age I actually prefer recording alone now on 'The Simpsons' for example because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times when I record with a group I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive you're negative. You absorb absorb as if you must fill yourself up with love because you've got a shortage somewhere.
In Los Angeles by the time you're 35 you're older than most of the buildings.
If God drives a car He'd drive a 1973 Ford LTD Brougham sedan with a claret-colored vinyl roof with oxblood leather upholstery and an opera window.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all the world needs dreamers who do.
Laws are like sausages it is better not to see them being made.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God both without us and within us.
Home nowadays is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
Money is our madness our vast collective madness.
I have done many movies that people hadn't seen. 'The Fountain' I spent a year on that. 'The Prestige' with Chris Nolan and 'Australia.' From my perspective it's very satisfying. Some movies people see and other movies they don't. 'Wolverine' 'X Men' I know that in some level people know me just for that and it's fine for me.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth and I am a citizen of the world.
Everybody past a certain age regardless of how they look on the outside pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school earlier age at the computer and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?
Tolerance is a one-way street in the Age of Obama. 'Choice' is in the eye (and iron fist) of the First Amendment usurper.
It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
My father wants me to be like my brother but I can't be.
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively that is but as a means of personal expression.
I was always a dreamer in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe seldom executed.
We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every menu. We can make portion sizes smaller and emphasize quality over quantity. And we can help create a culture - imagine this - where our kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance chaos to order confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast a house into a home a stranger into a friend.
The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help rather than suffer.
I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.
I had done some flimflam movies but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
The tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.
To raise new questions new possibilities to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour whatever he does whoever he is.
There is a vast world of work out there in this country where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.
I think the sport of wrestling which I became involved with at the age of 14 I competed until I was 34 kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.
When you're my age and you see a story you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.
I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Only then approaching my fortieth birthday I made philosophy my life's work.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all whether we like it or not perhaps even if we have never known them.
I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
That's what keeps me going: dreaming inventing then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.
The people are the government administering it by their agents; they are the government the sovereign power.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home goes to an all-white school and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Researches tested a new form of medical marijuana that treats pain but doesn't get the user high prompting patients who need medical marijuana to declare "Thank you?"
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
After I won the Oscar my salary doubled my friends tripled my children became more popular at school my butcher made a pass at me and my maid hit me up for a raise.
Time = Life Therefore waste your time and waste of your life or master your time and master your life.
Trust your instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
In order to get beyond racism we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally we must treat them differently.
A family can develop only with a loving woman as its center.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
A poet is before anything else a person who is passionately in love with language.
We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going that is where you were going to be.
I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.
As long as any adult thinks that he like the parents and teachers of old can become introspective invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him he is lost.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Some people won't go the extra mile and then on their birthday when no one makes a fuss they feel neglected and bitter.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.
People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
And you know the baby boomers are getting older and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer and so tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
I've made a promise to myself to be a 100% healthy person if nothing else.
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings I now with a high sense of gratitude presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty the Creator and Preserver.
A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
The greatest power is not money power but political power.
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have hostility is not from God bitterness unforgiveness all of these are attacks from Satan.
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much we feel so little.
One of my grandfathers actually having gone out there as a minister decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and decided to become a doctor.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
For the youth the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good even if nothing else in your life is right you feel like your whole world is complete.
But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience impair your health and dissipate your property.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Public misbehavior by the famous is a powerful teaching tool.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names the streets after them.
The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan.
The perfection of our union especially our commitment to equality of opportunity has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said 'In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.'
A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.
Men kick friendship around like a football but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin my body my mind and try to live my life and be happy.
The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.
The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy abnormality hobbies and humors.
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass" Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".
It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.
But friendship is the breathing rose with sweets in every fold.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life the children; those who are in the twilight of life the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life the sick the needy and the handicapped.
Older people shouldn't eat health food they need all the preservatives they can get.
A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic so that came naturally to me.
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another.
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done it's always your choice.
Music is very spiritual it has the power to bring people together.
In every society in human history including the United States those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism.
Even when poetry has a meaning as it usually has it may be inadvisable to draw it out Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
The typewriting machine when played with expression is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers.
If you call failures experiments you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
I can't date women my own age any more - I hate going to cemeteries.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Business is never so healthy as when like a chicken it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge others just gargle.
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
The meaning I picked the one that changed my life: Overcome fear behold wonder.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
If it keeps up man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time somewhere someone said to themselves You know I want to set those people over there on fire but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.
Man learns through experience and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Dad kept us out of school but school comes and goes. Family is forever.
My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
A good compromise a good piece of legislation is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
The essence of good government is trust.
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn't been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn't like what a woman her age is offered. That's a real double standard. You get Sean Connery who gets older and older still playing opposite young ladies but it doesn't work the other way around.
I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse I was interested in growth stocks.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.
In times of rapid change experience could be your worst enemy.
It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
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.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
However if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence there can't be much to it.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations of arts and of sciences.
What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs once launched never disappear. Actually a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
I would like to see more airplay for all artists no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.
Gestures in love are incomparably more attractive effective and valuable than words.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
If all the economists were laid end to end they'd never reach a conclusion.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men but that men will begin to think like computers.
I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.
You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body trimmed it down firmed it up through discipline exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly that all comes into it.
I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later they gave me an honourary one.
If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.
A husband is what is left of a lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Listen real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
If winning isn't everything why do they keep score?
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class and with children.
What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?
In too many instances the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.
The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural as well as moral and intellectual.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics such as sex eye color age and Social Security number.
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts some are craftsmen some take a little time out to travel and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool but if that's all you've got it's just boring. Everything I write whether it's happy or sad has a sense of humor to it.
Throughout life people will make you mad disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
Of one thing I am certain the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered poverty vanished war eliminated.
Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.
Better pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.
My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they're going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life I just spend drinking.
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
What love we've given we'll have forever. What love we fail to give will be lost for all eternity.
Hurt leads to bitterness bitterness to anger travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Beauty is worse than wine it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
I want my audience to know me for my work not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.
Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college but I'd done them because it was fun.
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Life is a dream for the wise a game for the fool a comedy for the rich a tragedy for the poor.
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Recounting of a life story a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them the teacher is the most important.
The hardest part is to travel and to be away from your family.
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about he goes off and gets married.
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Confit is the ultimate comfort food and trendy or not it is dazzling stuff.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age I'm actually overweight.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
The fact is that love is of two kinds one which commands and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win second or third place is not enough.
The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.
Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public and the new is always alarming.
Like success failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude failure is a learning experience a rung on the ladder a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Thirty to 40 years ago most financial decisions were fairly simple.
Chicken fat beef fat fish fat fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.
Electricity is really just organized lightning.
From kindergarten to graduation I went to public schools and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
The lunatic the lover and the poet are of imagination all compact.
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive it isn't.
Well married a person has wings poorly married shackles.
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
I want to have children but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America but there is no party of principle.
Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again.
When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age so I was the last one picked so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court so that was pretty much my job.
I don't divide architecture landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing.
Right now computers which are supposed to be our servant are oppressing us.
Because of indifference one dies before one actually dies.
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
If you got the game you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
For my part I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.
When you focus on being a blessing God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Home life's great man. The kids are great happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.
I am as I've said merely competent. But in an age of incompetence that makes me extraordinary.
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
Study is the bane of childhood the oil of youth the indulgence of adulthood and a restorative in old age.
Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.
There are no extraordinary men just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small so soft and warm like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone I know but mine was plain weird.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
I've always been the type to fall in love fast and with every boyfriend I plan out my wedding in my head.
I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory friends you can trust love of learning and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up but a comedy in long-shot.
Passion you see can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.
In order to succeed your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.
Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
I did get to keep the wedding dresses from 'Runaway Bride'. They're all boxed up in my garage. I've never opened them. It'll be fun one day when Hazel is taller. She can play dress-up with her friends.
Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.
My desire is to be a forgiving non-judgmental person.
No I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.
I live alone with cats books pictures fresh vegetables to cook the garden the hens to feed.
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power knowledge and sexuality since the classical age it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
True love is quiescent except in the nascent moments of true humility.