The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
I'm nothing more than a sports slave.
There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
We go to college, live together or marry, and have kids - often with little more thought to the daily routines of raising children than our grandparents gave them, when women by and large stayed at home.
If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'
Studies show that if people think that they are treated fairly by the police, that matters almost more than what the result is. If you get stopped for a traffic stop and feel that you are treated courteously and fairly, you are much more likely to accept the fact that you got a speeding ticket.
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
I was planning that whole athletic slide into Stanford rather than actually getting a 1450 on my SATs.
There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.
The way I play, it's very much more a mental game than a physical game. I'm looking for space and where are players leaving space. Defensively, where are we at numerical disadvantages? Do I shift more to the left because they have more players on their right side? It's about reading the game before the game happens.
I was a friend during school time, but not much after that. By the time I got to BYU, I was a social mess, an absolute misfit. There is not a shyer, more pathetic kid who stepped on that BYU campus than me.
I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.
I know some actresses who used to be older than me who are now younger than me - I don't know how they do it.
It is possible in medicine, even when you intend to do good, to do harm instead. That is why science thrives on actively encouraging criticism rather than stifling it.
I did have a problem concentrating on anything for more than 10 seconds. I was one of the first kids in the U.K. to go on Ritalin, and my mum hated it, and I hated it.
More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
Personally, I do not believe that we shall have greater armaments in the future than we have had in the past. On the contrary, I believe there will be a gradual diminution in this respect.
Am I the only one who can't seem to reconcile the grand canyon of cognitive dissonance I feel when people with much more important jobs than I have manage to score much lengthier times off?
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
