After the two drinks, she felt warm inside, and slightly indistinct at the edges.
There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
I think that when you do an adaptation for theater, it's either a marriage or a love affair. . and so tremendous is my esteem and affection of many years for Ernest Gaines, there was no question but that I would be a very faithful adapter. . which I did do.
Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.
I don't write any kind of sequel or remake.