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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who’s a true believer, if you die, you know you’re going to heaven to be with God.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
There’ll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
I’m not really a relationship expert but …I’m an expert on manhood and what men think.
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
I don’t look my age, I don’t feel my age and I don’t act my age. To me age is just a number.
I want my life to effect the balance to the positive.
I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Love is the ultimate theme, but it’s not just for women.
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
Music’s been around a long time, and there’s going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it’s a big record, that’s the frosting on the cake, but music’s the main meal.
The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I’m looking for something different. A lot of chefs’ cookbooks are food as it’s done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.
Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn’t like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
It’s weird to say, but every time I look at my daughter and I see this little living breathing thing that came from me, that represents all of the hopes and dreams that I would want for her, I see a miracle.
Gabriel Byrne is an extraordinary human being. We have two extraordinary kids and we work at it. We were always friends. He stuck by me through very hard times, and I hope he’d say the same about me.
It’s the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.
People are so codified – it’s sad.
I don’t look so closely at women’s fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
I don’t actually own a car.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
True health care reform cannot happen in Washington. It has to happen in our kitchens, in our homes, in our communities. All health care is personal.
I’m always learning from experiences because each one is different and there are different players involved in the project at the time with their own way of doing things.
You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.
The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity it is service.
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
Vampires are so old that they don’t need to impress anyone anymore. They’re comfortable in their own skin. It’s this enigmatic strength that’s very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who’s going to look after his woman.
I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved – I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.
My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents’ house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I’m on ‘Downton Abbey.’
Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
I definitely don’t look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
I know I could be the host of ‘SportsCenter’ in two years if I changed my show today to sports.