La La Anthony Quotes

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative.

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.

I play piano and that's my love. I read and I paint and I compose music, so I've got a pretty full creative life. And it's not because, I'm obsessively creative.

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

When you're younger you have so many ideas about yourself; everything is important. It's not when you look back, nothing is that important. It's only life.

With each person our heart loves, our soul becomes stronger.

Life is the best teacher.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Just laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for the good man desires nothing which a just law will interfere with.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

If you want to be happy, you will be.

Love is the language all animals understand.

A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.

The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great action is gone, like the bloom from a soiled flower.

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

I think self-esteem comes from work.

I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

If you don't start, it is certain you won't arrive.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

People can refute your facts, but never your feelings.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

I think my favorite, and Coppola and that whole thing. East coast Italian directors I guess.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

The biggest fool is the one who thinks he knows it all.