Those who live are those who fight.
We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.
The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
Because there is no meaning to be found in the arbitrary nature of things. , It's all random. Just as space is blue. And birds fly through it.
There is much to be said for solitude.
We can never change the story that made us what we are. It's a story accumulated by the manifold complexities-its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what happened to us. And we carry everywhere all that has shaped us-all that we lacked, all that we wanted but never got; all that we got but never wanted; all that was found and lost.
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike. . . People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
Sixty-five countries doing nothing is not a coalition. We need a strategy. That's the first and foremost thing that we need.
Enlightenment comes through the feminine side of the being.
Iran. . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful. . . time is not unlimited.