The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.
If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men.
Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.
I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.
You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.
Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
To consciously evolve, we require clear vision of a compassionate future that draws out our enthusiastic participation in life.
I remember a long, long day of filming and it took forever to get Kirk Douglas up on his cross. We played a terrible joke on him when, as he was safely installed, the assistant director called lunch and left him up there. He could have had the lot of us fired but he was very good about it. You have to have a sense of humor in this industry.
For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me. It is nothing more than this.
if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.