An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
The return of my birthday if I remember it fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools but you know that's how I kept track of what was going on.
A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love from love to matrimony in a moment.
If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one too was made out of chaos.
Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
At the time I came along Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity usually involving boys in pursuit of sex and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
To love for the sake of being loved is human but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.
I am not afraid of death I just don't want to be there when it happens.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible then they seem improbable and then when we summon the will they soon become inevitable.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty and love from woes.
A runner must run with dreams in his heart not money in his pocket.
I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry because they come to me out of love and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.
For it was not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed but my soul.
The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
Friendship is like money easier made than kept.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get the younger their new wives get.
In an age of incompetence I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
At that age feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It's a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100000 in one day in a posh boutique.
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.
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
As equality increases so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
Faith is the very first thing you should pack in a hope chest.
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
Whenever the people are well-informed they can be trusted with their own government.
The house has to please everyone contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky.
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
To me it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language that goes to his heart.
Work look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
I came of age believing that no matter what happened I would always be able to support myself.
In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
All changes even the most longed for have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
My grandfather along with Carnegie was a pioneer in philanthropy which my father then practiced on a very large scale.
Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
You know all that really matters is that the people you love are happy and healthy. Everything else is just sprinkles on the sundae.
Let the wife make the husband glad to come home and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
I couldn't wait for success so I went ahead without it.
People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.
Health is the vital principle of bliss and exercise of health.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like until you buy the vinyl record you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
This world of ours must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate and be instead a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
What makes us a bit nervous is in this instant age to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears close our eyes and blindly follow the most narrow conservative tenets of religion; or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all good design must primarily serve people.
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
When you are young and healthy it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face you should go home and examine your conscience.
I can live without money but I cannot live without love.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Music in performance is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts patriotism idealism a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
So during those first moments of the day which are yours and yours alone you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page And be alone on earth as I am now.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her like a bank note for two 20s.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time then two years later you'll be like 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
As a governor I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.
Success doesn't mean that you are healthy success doesn't mean that you're happy success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good or feel good or are good.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.
I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.
When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we changing continue to love a changed person.
For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.
No good opera plot can be sensible for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
I would often find myself at the age of 21 at midnight running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
I was doing a children's book on self-esteem and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
Whatever poet orator or sage may say of it old age is still old age.
A budget tells us what we can't afford but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach for the most part.
An image is not simply a trademark a design a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual institution corporation product or service.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.
For whatever reason maybe it's because of my story but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness health and lifestyle choices like that.
When a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it because it is very true.
Of all human activities man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.
Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal which we all want to surpass and some don't.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.
In everyone's life at some time our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50 and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did which was work in an office.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing no wind is favorable.
If you want to change attitudes start with a change in behavior.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because you see humor is truth.
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Some people see things that are and ask Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
I really see myself continuing to design clothes fragrances.
The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
If you really want to make a friend go to someone's house and eat with him the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.
When you reach the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.
My parents were really really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12 I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.
An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change you will change.
Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.
The love of learning the sequestered nooks And all the sweet serenity of books.
I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another his education is incomplete.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
They don't need a lawyer they need a toastmaster.
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell it is simply purgatory.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?
I just invent then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men.
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
In the television age the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry does that not indicate something about your size?
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication they're tools of creativity and they can be shaped by their user.
It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills because by the time you graduate undergraduate or graduate that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end the poem is not a thing we see-it is rather a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
We live in a society of victimization where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet proper exercise breaking the smoking habit control of alcohol stress management and periodic exams.
I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
It was definitely a part of our life. I mean my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietnam at the same time so it wasn't just my dad's story it was my mom's story too. And we definitely grew up listening to the stories.
In our society the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward he will look forward with the work.
To own the dominant or only newspaper in a mid-sized American city was for many decades a kind of license to print money. In the Internet age however no one has figured out how to rescue the newspaper in the United States or abroad.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.
Willingness to change is a strength even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
When I was first divorced I started dating younger women and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like 'This is just dumb.'
I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
Money was never a big motivation for me except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
Everybody wants you to do good things but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry have children and go to their football games.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence imagination and wonder.
I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.
Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet there would be no more wars.
No matter how many goals you have achieved you must set your sights on a higher one.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
It is easier to lead men to combat stirring up their passion than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Muslims must believe that all power success and victory comes from God alone.
I'm tired of hearing about money money money money money. I just want to play the game drink Pepsi wear Reebok.
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them however has not changed.
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming it is the stronger when it comes and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
The Godhead consists of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me they won't make you rebound like me they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined examined reduced to essentials and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We have a booming stock market in 1999. Will the bubble somehow burst and then we enter depression? Well some things are not different.
When I eat with my friends it is a moment of real pleasure when I really enjoy my life.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul the director of his life.
Of all the roles I've played none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Each age it is found must write its own books; or rather each generation for the next succeeding.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is at best presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15 16 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
I love that feeling of being in love the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul angry or gentle. Anger is just and pity is just but judgement is never just.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Suicide is man's way of telling God "You can't fire me - I quit."
I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while it wouldn't be sustainable for me and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
Human beings do not eat nutrients they eat food.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
Despise the enemy strategically but take him seriously tactically.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent single-parent cohabiting homes.
A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid but most stupid people are conservatives.
Whether one believes in a religion or not and whether one believes in rebirth or not there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.
Give me golf clubs fresh air and a beautiful partner and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Travel which was once either a necessity or an adventure has become very largely a commodity and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement too.
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that too. But that one felt all right.
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
The public has lost faith in the ability of Social Security and Medicare to provide for old age. They've lost faith in the banking system and in conventional medical insurance.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if'; And then do it.
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Politics it seems to me for years or all too long has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
I would eat healthy at times and pig out at times. But I never had to go on a strict diet plan.
Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.
Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge education hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves having fun keeping fit and healthy.
When he came back from downtown he had forgotten to bring his license his identification the $2 for the wedding license. So we got married two days later.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact no matter how suspect is superior to any imaginative exercise no matter how true.
With age you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present the more intense that yearning.
To love abundantly is to live abundantly and to love forever is to live forever.
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean I can pack it away.
I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
As a novelist I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
There are only three things women need in life: food water and compliments.
It is not how much we have but how much we enjoy that makes happiness.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things to me are expressions of love.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
If a man's wit be wandering let him study the mathematics.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
I have two kids career and I travel and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
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.
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all.
If you're extremely painfully frightened of age it shows.
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However the stages of my life - motherhood middle age etc. - often influence my subject matter.
Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope even the ruins to which it clings.
A city building you experience when you walk; a suburban building you experience when you drive.
It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Home is the place where when you have to go there they have to take you in.
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous for them everything is possible.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science along with behaviour control genetic engineering transplanted heads computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
Children even infants are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
If you don't have any fight in you you might as well be dead.
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
I am still far from being what I want to be but with God's help I shall succeed.
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be and much less about what we would do.
No matter how calmly you try to referee parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them.
Living in an age of advertisement we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day but it changes and withers at a touch.
By the time I'm 40 interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age anyway.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person he believed in me.
Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment you perform better when your thoughts feelings emotions goals and values are in balance.
Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.
We cannot banish dangers but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really really hard and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
'Survivor' wouldn't have happened had I not gone out there and helped CBS to sell sponsors to finance the first one. Part of my thinking on 'Survivor' was that it should have rewards that are corporate brands. A Big Mac one thimble-full of Coca-Cola.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others but far enough ahead to motivate them.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.
Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way you're ahead of the game.
I thought that once we were out of the baby stage parenting would be a breeze.
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.
People think of the inventor as a screwball but no one ever asks the inventor what he thinks of other people.
When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie I panicked and hit the gym. I was like 'It's going to be on film documented for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.'
Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.
Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.
My grandparents got married at a very young age and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together as a team.