The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry agriculture energy and transportation - essential as they are make people sick and die.
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
These technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.
I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
After two weeks of working on a project you know whether it will work or not.
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
By age seven I used to comb my hair for performances just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
What though youth gave love and roses Age still leaves us friends and wine.
As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Put your nose into the Bible everyday. It is your spiritual food. And then share it. Make a vow not to be a lukewarm Christian.
Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
I feel like I've never had a home you know? I feel related to the country to this country and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place a place where you can reckon with yourself.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
A retired teacher paid $62000 towards her pension and nothing yes nothing for full family medical dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it and others do just the same with their time.
Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
But to me nothing - the negative the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed scolded and beamed at the world.
I was never interested in 'Teen Beat' like roles. I just wanted to work.
Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
A lot of my childhood memories involve walking home in floods of tears. At that age feeling unpopular is difficult to handle.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
My biggest hero Gregory Peck was my birthday present on April 14 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
When your values are clear to you making decisions becomes easier.
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.
Science without religion is lame religion without science is blind.
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Those who have compared our life to a dream were right we were sleeping wake and waking sleep.
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
God's forgiveness is the only thing. And well I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and you know no matter what went on the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
My dad's a doctor and when I was 8 I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die I never ate meat again.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.
We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid.
My mother enjoyed old age and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.
I don't know whether it's age or maturity but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.
But I think it's a little different in Europe because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.
As you age naturally your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that you deny your heritage.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday I wanted to be 65 again but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
Action and reaction ebb and flow trial and error change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence fear; out of our fear clearer vision fresh hope. And out of hope progress.
A good designer must rely on experience on precise logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Once in a while I'll get moved to do some exercise. It's something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I'm OK.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers the House and the Senate but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home.
I am very abnormal But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.
It doesn't matter about money; having it not having it. Or having clothes or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
I distinguish between nationalism and patriotism.
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
The price of success is hard work dedication to the job at hand and the determination that whether we win or lose we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself though in another dress And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars invisible by day.
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas.
I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you you should stay home and have a good cry.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.
The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
In a free society government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Punishment is now unfashionable because it creates moral distinctions among men which to the democratic mind are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
All of us grow up in particular realities - a home family a clan a small town a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born or we are peripherally aware of it.
I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.
The best minds are not in government. If any were business would steal them away.
But look I was born in 1956 the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and by and large people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.
We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.
Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
If you don't design your own life plan chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
With patient and firm determination I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities treatment centers homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything even poverty you can survive it.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
You can't learn everything you need to know legally.
Time destroys the speculation of men but it confirms nature.
If American men are obsessed with money American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain the women talk of loss and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer you have to change that's the way it works.
These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.
There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either.
Sir I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Before anything else preparation is the key to success.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side the catastrophe is still there.
I think if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27 there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that beyond a certain age a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
There is an anti-aging possibility but it has to come from within.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Treasure your relationships not your possessions.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
My computer beat me at checkers but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.
Equality is the public recognition effectively expressed in institutions and manners of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
One must judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.
The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
The higher American patriotism on the other hand combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom innocence with understanding and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
It is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends and really I wasn't a very social boy.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
In every conceivable manner the family is link to our past bridge to our future.
What I've enjoyed most though is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confidence of their help.
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being our life health and reason we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention but it has no persuasive value at all.
I have been surrounded by some of the smartest brightest most caring lawyers by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.
There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
If you want to make peace with your enemy you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means you have missed the body of the poem.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
After a shooting spree they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal and with them men.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; old age is slow in both.
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.
I've become 40 my audience is partly the same age.
Without tradition art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation it is a corpse.
If there is anything that a man can do well I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change the way I see it is service to a fellow human being.
We are constantly protecting the male ego and it's a disservice to men. If a man has any sensitivity or intelligence he wants to get the straight scoop from his girlfriend.
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Each word bears its weight so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved dearer than everything in this and next life.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
Yes'm old friends is always best 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure a cooler blue the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
One does not need buildings money power or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing and that is the place to train.
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
Old age is always wakeful; as if the longer linked with life the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people but I wanted to act.
Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
It's always been my personal feeling that unless you are married there is something that is not very dignified about talking about who you are dating.
Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
In truth politeness is artificial good humor it covers the natural want of it and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
The legal system is often a mystery and we its priests preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Bachelors have consciences married men have wives.
Men who are rogues individually are in the mass very honorable people.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
The traveler sees what he sees the tourist sees what he has come to see.
We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every age in the world have passed through this fiery persecution.
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels that I equate dating a woman with punishment shame guilt disappointment reproach reprimand persecution. It's a nightmare.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Gambling is legal and betting is legal for what I bet.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness and so frivolous is he that though full of a thousand reasons for weariness the least thing such as playing billiards or hitting a ball is sufficient enough to amuse him.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time you know.
I always say centered food equals centered behavior.
When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
When you have a good mother and no father God kind of sits in. It's not enough but it helps.
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty the wit; and at forty the judgment.
A moment comes which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
The ignorant mind with its infinite afflictions passions and evils is rooted in the three poisons. Greed anger and delusion.
I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.
Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.
After all sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words keeping the asset whole rather than undermining your natural capital.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small they gall and pinch us; but if too large they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
I dropped out of school for a semester transferred to another college switched to an art major graduated got married and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.
Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people that they're basically good and smart and if you give them tools they'll do wonderful things with them.
A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.
I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it even if you completely disagree with it you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life comedy.
You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't take my job.
Mad adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
Open your eyes look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.
Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.
I can find God in nature in animals in birds and the environment.
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
I take my children everywhere but they always find their way back home.
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it the speed of his acceptance.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
But to personally satisfy my own adrenalin needs I've been racing cars a little bit which has been fun.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers and nobody thinks of complaining.
Death is a very dull dreary affair and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease cancer stroke diabetes Alzheimer's and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.
The only way forward if we are going to improve the quality of the environment is to get everybody involved.
Sex without love is a meaningless experience but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence to live as if he were poor.
Forgiveness is the economy of the heart forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before it's impossible.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold service was joy.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one I spend the night with the other.
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
There's only one thing that can kill the movies and that's education.
You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
If you just watch a teenager you see a lot of uncertainty.
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel he ends by having many acquaintances but no friends.
The test of civilization is its estimate of women.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation a race a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
Love looks through a telescope; envy through a microscope.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique poetic products of the heart.
Back in the mid-1970s we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die but he can never know that he is dead.
He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions it is governed by our mental attitude.
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance I suppose.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
I mean I'm pretty good in real life but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television.
The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. 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.
Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
My real adversary has no name no face no party. It will never be elected yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.
There is no love without forgiveness and there is no forgiveness without love.
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I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
You can map your life through your favorite movies and no two people's maps will be the same.
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little they become its visible soul.
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama however such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
Temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
More books more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Be a sinner and sin strongly but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations governments and to extremely wealthy individuals.
In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Intelligence is the wife imagination is the mistress memory is the servant.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
You can die of the cure before you die of the illness.
I told my mom 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said "Miley you are the girl on the cover' and I was like 'I know but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer but my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood because it was full of gladness and good humanity.
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice hates dogs and patronizes human beings.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light they say forgetful of the shadow's speed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say for the money - has turned himself into a slave.
In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Utility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65 you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise you are just existing.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Never have more children than you have car windows.
The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
When faith is lost when honor dies the man is dead.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.
Use your health even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question "How?" but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question "Why?"
If at first you don't succeed try try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
How can people trust the harvest unless they see it sown?