I will never have a heart attack. I give them.
a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.
Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.
How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!
I was trying to make them face their fears. Youth spends so much energy trying to forget them. There's the fear of failure in examinations, fear of sex, fear of not getting a job, fear of unpopularity, fear of appearing naïve. Youth discovers many bunkholes in which to hide when frightened. They are mostly unhealthy, none of them bombproof.
Spying is always an expensive method of acquiring information.
how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!
My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.
Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.
It's just a matter of understanding what's necessary and discipline yourself to do it.
I wanted to get the fastest time in the world this year, but with everything going on, it's a pretty decent swim,. . . I knew I was under world record pace. You could tell by the crowd. You can always tell at these meets when something good is going on because of the crowd.