I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
My greatest passion is my personal life.
I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.
The walls are raised against honest men in civic life.
Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.
I don't look at family and what I do for a living as separate things. They're all kind of one thing, and this is part of their life just like it's part of mine.
A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
I was an insecure kid. Once I saw 'Hercules' with Steve Reeves, it completely changed my life. If I had never gone to that film, I wouldn't be here today.
Both me and Nikitin are protective when it comes to our relationship. We would not like if someone comes and tells that 'Oh your chemistry is better with your co-actor than real life husband.'
All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
I don't have to live the roller coaster other people live with my life. It's hard because people try to have an effect.
I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.
Often, as teens, we think we know everything, but actually we're just trying to figure life out, and we don't know much at all.
I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.
John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don't allow anybody's expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.
Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
Gandhi was a strange guy. There was this simplistic manner; but nobody knows what it cost to provide the simple life of Mohandas Gandhi. Nobody. He traveled on a train by himself.
