In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.
If you can make me laugh, my heart is yours! I think there's nothing more attractive than someone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.
Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.
I find DIY really therapeutic. I lose myself in it, because you can concentrate on the task and not think about all the other stuff going on in your life.
I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.
So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.
You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
If you're just saying, hey, I'm doing this. I'm working to make money. I'm working to increase my status. If that's all there is, I think you will find out that it's meaningless.
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
When you give a homemade gift, you are giving a part of yourself to the recipient. You can't do that with a mass-produced item.
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
It's important to experience as many parts of an organization as you can - because some day, you may have the chance to lead that organization.
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.
If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.
No matter who you are, no matter what you're going through, God knows it. He is with you. He is going to pull you through.
Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
It's mind-altering when you slip into someone else's shoes. That's psychedelic, man.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.
You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.
To have Serena in the Wimbledon final, I think, is the hardest match you can have.
How can you run for president if you don't know the job description?
I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
So you don't have to take us too seriously; I mean, we're already intimidating enough on stage.
If you're not educated to enjoy the arts, if you're not taken to a concert, or you don't hear something beautiful, you don't know what you're missing.
