I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.
The next best thing to a very good joke is a very bad one.
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.
Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.
Everybody has his own theater, in which he is manager, actor, prompter, playwrite, sceneshifter, boxkeeper, doorkeeper, all in one, and audience into the bargain.
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.
First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.
And I may often question choices I make as a producer. But I've never questioned the choices I make as a director.