You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.
You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.
If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen.
After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.
It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.
I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.
I know I can be diva-ish sometimes, but I have to be in control. The nature of my life, the nature of what I do, is divadom, it really is.
Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.
True budo is a work of love. It is a work of giving life to all beings, and not killing or struggling with each other. Love is the guardian deity of everything. Nothing can exist without it. Aikido is the realization of love.
The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown. A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.
I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.