There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
As a child, I wanted to be a lawyer because I thought lawyers and the law were wonderful. But they are more wonderful, I think, than I had thought.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
I have bigger concerns than what pop stars are doing. I'm more concerned about our environment, what industrialists are doing to it.
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such devoted fan base.
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
As far long-term aspirations, other than acting, I do want to direct a little bit. I want to get on the production side and eventually start a production company and maybe make some projects of my own.
I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.
I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
What emerged, of course, was that the magnitude scale presupposed that all earthquakes were alike except for a constant scaling factor. And this proved to be closer to the truth than we expected.
I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.
How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is?
It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.
Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.
Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.
You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.
Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set out to conquer. I just sit quietly for a few years, and then it starts to become something.
There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits.
Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.
In the end, the humanities can only be defended by stressing how indispensable they are; and this means insisting on their vital role in the whole business of academic learning, rather than protesting that, like some poor relation, they don't cost much to be housed.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
