And Quotes

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it’s because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.

People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

The feeling before and after the event is very important. There are things happening before and after the event. These things are even more important than the event itself.

Spend your time and energy creating, not criticizing.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.

I know what my talents are, and at the end of the day I'm an actor who can dance.

...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.

I do think that drugs and alcohol have been glorified and exoticized in such a way that it gets into the art world.

How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see in others, though not so clearly in ourselves.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

My fans are the only people who will be with me forever, all else comes and goes.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

We can not expect to breed respect for law and order among people who do not share the fruits of our freedom.

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

Every morning I wake up and see, The most handsome man lying next to me. He's the one I cherish and love, A blessing sent from Heaven above. I will love him as a faithful wife

The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

Sometimes we are just divided, but we still, for the most part, we have similar hopes and dreams.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

Man and woman, love, what is it? A cork and a bottle.

If we make sure we stay in a state of conscious alertness for the next synchronicity, our minds stay on the positive and off our fear and doubt.

In the wintertime I like macaroni and cheese.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

In all that surrounds him the egotist sees only the frame of his own portrait.

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

Every human being is a mixture of light and darkness, trust and fear, love and hate.

You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

At any given moment in your life, you have the choice between love and fear. And that's a choice you make. You make the choice of how you react to events.

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

Freedom comes with self-knowledge, when the mind goes above and beyond the hindrances it has created for itself.

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.