There are a lot of people that have marginal powers, like a guy who levitates a little bit off the ground, or someone who can breathe a little bit of fire, or someone that can freeze a little bit of something, if it's really close to him, you say, "Well, what do you do with that? How is that useful?" There is so much of it around you and you're seeing it, it becomes the important thing in society.
As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet.
Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.
If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.
The question becomes not just how to accumulate more, but how to covet less.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet.
Much like photographs, I also love the idea that ghosts are memories frozen in time. We can be haunted by both just as horrifically. One really becomes a metaphor for the other.
Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.
It becomes essential to choose one's path. Life consists in making these choices. One develops by choosing. It requires strength to become a child of God.
There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].
There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political
The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.
Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.
The mind that engages in subjects of too great variety becomes confused and weakened.
If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates hisher new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.