I didn't start grieving for my mother properly until I was maybe 16.
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall; his tongue drips poison.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
. . . he [Muhammad] declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. . . The precept of the Koran is, perpetual war against all who deny, that Mahomet is the prophet of God.
I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.
For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.
The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have. . . Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost.