I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads.
Happiness, I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth, in the air or the sky; yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.
Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.
Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.
I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor. But I wanted to be somewhere where there would be no ceiling on what I could accomplish, and I felt like if I stayed in St. Louis I might have a really great regional theater career or something, but that I wasn't going to be able to get much further than that. And it felt like New York and L. A. were the two places where you could end up being a TV star or you could end up doing regional theater, which would have been fine as well.
Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.