Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.
It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.
Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.
We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!
O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?
There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.
I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists.
I'm not too into fast food, but you know if I was, it would be chicken.
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.