Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
There's nothing more nourishing to the spirit than doing what you feel called to do.
I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
The U.S. has intervened more often in more countries farther from its own shores than has any power in modern history.
Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.
More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic.
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
Working your core always, your foot speed, jumping rope, push-ups and sit-ups - things like that are really important. Those things will pay off more than just doing what a bench press will.
Go out and face the world secure in the knowledge that everybody else thinks they are better looking than they are as well.
Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.
The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.
I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
What Republicans need to do is to go back to their roots - starting with Lincoln - and remind the nation that they are the party of national growth, racial equality and unity of purpose. These Lincolnian themes will serve Republicans - and the nation - much better than becoming the party on the lookout for the supposed rat head of higher taxes.
I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.
It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
