Al David Quotes

Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life.

...our happiness hinges not on good luck; it hinges on peace of heart.

Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts.

There is no one harder to live with than an artist. Therefore an artist is a real gift because he or she raises the sanctity of everyone else in the community.

Follow your dreams and make the most of every experience.

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

Everyone said that the NBA could not possibly make it because it had too many black players.

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

I'm working hard to see whether there can be basketball next year.

With every day that goes by, there will be further reductions on what's left of the season.

Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.

Let's have honest interest rates. Let's let the free market set interest rates in that zone where supply of savings is matched up with demand for real borrowing for capital projects.

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.

It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

I'm really not interested in showing me or playing me. My gift as an actor, given to me, is to be able to become other people.

Inevitably, every part an actor plays contains some of himself.

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

I'm 64 years old, and I've been acting now for 42 years. Only recently have I thought to myself, 'Hmmm, it may be interesting to start directing.'

So, if I ever played Napoleon it would be with an Italian accent. He was an outsider, which also interests me.

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

We all live downstream

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

Love is the force that makes us fully human.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

Come on Canada, it's time to kick our bad habits and get into shape!

Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Faced with the evidence, many deniers have started to admit that global warming is real, but argue that humans have little or nothing to do with it.

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation.

A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it.

Because countries often have differing political and economic systems, agreements are needed to protect those invested in trade.

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.