And Quotes
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.
If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.
It doesn't matter where the ball is or what the situation is. I can look around to the guys on my left and right, and know that they are ready to go.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.
The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.
When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.
For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight, for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight; Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.
We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.
I just want to work with talented people who are enjoyable to be with, and take big huge risks from high comedy to deep, dark, brooding drama, to thriller. I just want to go back and forth.
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the illusion of time and life.
When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.
I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.
Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.
Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love.
I think most women we go through a stage in relationship, this is men and women where I'm trusting you, but now I got to test it, I have to make sure your the real deal.
We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.
It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.
Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.
To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves; it is as fancy, as big, as little, as you please, just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together and often tumble over each other.
I was the Commander in Chief with men and women in combat. And the idea of trying to agonize in public or show weakness would have demoralized them.
Watching myself fight, I realize the line between success and failure is so narrow, it's scary.
There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.
The pendulum of mathematics swings back and forth towards abstraction and away from it with a timing that remains to be estimated.
I really like the concept of, like, slowing down and savoring your food, enjoying it.
There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
Anything that you really pour your heart and soul into is always rewarding. The most rewarding thing is probably making each other laugh.
