Matt Bomer and I went to Carnegie Mellon for drama together.
My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something?. . . Work and love.
I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.
A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.
Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.
Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.
Amy gritted her teeth. "King Louis XVI even put Franklin's picture on a chamber pot!" Jonah looked at his dad. "Do we have souvenir chamber pots?" "No. " His dad whipped out his phone. "I'll make the call.
I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.
History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It is not History, as if she were a person apart, who uses men as a means to work out her purposes, but history itself is nothing but the activity of men pursuing their purposes.
Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.