I want to be remembered as one who tried.
Fidelity to one's marriage vows is absolutely essential for love, trust and peace
The greatest test of life is obedience to God.
Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. . . Pride is ugly; it says if you succeed I am a failure. . . Pride is basically competitive in nature. When competition ends, pride ends.
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's.
We can choose to humble ourselves by conquering enmity toward our brothers and sisters, esteeming them as ourselves, and lifting them as high or higher than we are. . . .
Joe [Wright] reached out to me and sent me a treatment, and I said yes on the spot just from the treatment. Within six weeks, I was in Cape Town and there was a script [of Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive'], but I didn't realize until I received the full script that Rashida [Jones] and Michael [Schur] had worked on it. It's a particularly funny episode. Joe and I always looked at it as a satire; it has a lot of comedic elements to it.
Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.