If you're curious, you'll probably be a good journalist because we follow our curiosity like cats.
The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
I've always found a cure for the blues is wandering into something unknown, and resting there, before coming back to whatever weight you were carrying.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.
Manchmal gibt es Momente zwischen Tür und Angel, da gibt es einen Moment, ein Wimpernschlag, da streift zufällig einen Sonnenstrahl dein Gesicht und du weißt, hier begegnen sich gerade zwei Seelen. Zwei Seelen, die so eng miteinander verbunden sind, dass sie in der Ewigkeit vielleicht nur solche Momente kennen. Du spürst diese unendliche Liebe, diese tiefe Dankbarkeit für dieses Seelenstreicheln, und du weißt, solche Momente heilen dein Herz.
Gestern Abend hatte ich Besuch, und dieser jemand schenkte mir ein Stück Schnur.
Ich schaute ihn an und er sagte, "Wenn du mal Halt brauchst, nimm diese Schnur fest in deine Hand und halte einen Moment inne, besinne dich darauf: Ich halte dich. Du bist geschützt. Du bist behütet. Kultiviere diesen Gedanken und würze ihn vielleicht mit Dankbarkeit. Und irgendwann machst du einem völlig Fremden dieses Geschenk."
Ich schaute ihn an und er sagte, "Wenn du mal Halt brauchst, nimm diese Schnur fest in deine Hand und halte einen Moment inne, besinne dich darauf: Ich halte dich. Du bist geschützt. Du bist behütet. Kultiviere diesen Gedanken und würze ihn vielleicht mit Dankbarkeit. Und irgendwann machst du einem völlig Fremden dieses Geschenk."
Erzähl den Menschen, dass ein unsichtbarer Mann im Himmel das Universum erschaffen hat und die meisten werden dir glauben. Erzähl ihnen, dass die Farbe feucht ist und sie werden sie anfassen, nur um sicher zu gehen.
If you scapegoat someone, it's a third party that will be aware of it. It won't be you. Because you will believe you are doing the right thing.
We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.
We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
I do not read many periodicals, and I have little or no contact with progressive Christians, so I don't really know what goes on with them. It seemed to me that very often, the progressive Christianity was an initial step in de-Christianization, but this was probably unfair.
Individualism is a formidable lie.
Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.
Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to look for their fruits and yet to be unprepared for their fall. Let it be your consolation, then, that God's enemies, however honorable and exalted they may have been, shall nevertheless fade away like the smoke.
Between the uprightness of my conscience and the hardness of my lot, I know not how either to show respect to my feelings or to the times. The bitterness of my mind urges me at all hazards to speak what I think, whereas the necessity of the times prompts me, however unbecomingly, to keep silence. Good God! Which way shall I turn myself?
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
Kleine Dinge unterhalten kleine Geister.
To Him I look as my judge, to Him as the avenger of my wrongs, firm in my own good conscience and secure in the sincerity of my devotion, rooted in faith and confident that those who in the love of justice suffer injury can never be confounded, nor those who break the horns of the persecutors of the Church be deprived of their everlasting reward.
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way.
Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.
I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me.
I feel extraordinarily peaceful when I'm watching the sun set.
Je mehr Sprachen man spricht, desto besser versteht man sich selbst.
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.
The older I get, the more I'm conscious of ways very small things can make a change in the world. Tiny little things, but the world is made up of tiny matters, isn't it?
Krieg ist das Versagen von Diplomatie.
The man with the ball is responsible for what happens to the ball.
Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.
This is the worst administration since Caligula.
I always wanted to be a film-maker when I was younger, not an actor. I was an eight-year-old who dreamed of being a writer on 'The Simpsons,' which was a weird dream to have. But I started taking acting classes as a way to learn how to direct actors and I sort of fell in love with it.
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.
If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.
I've never had issues with popularity. I was always a popular guy... I've always had friends and loved ones and everything, so it wasn't like, 'Oh man, I gotta fill some void that was left by high school.' I had a great high-school experience.
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness.
