When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
I was very moved to see that the name of the boat was Hamlet - an imaginary character becomes so important to people, we think about them so much that we name a ship after them. The imaginary lives on in the real.
Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.
If someone is capable of loving his partner without restrictions, unconditionally, then he is manifesting the love of God. If the love of God becomes manifest, he will love his neighbor. If he loves his neighbor, he will love himself. If he loves himself, then everything returns to its proper place.
It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of property - then it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman.
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.
what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.
How funny it is that the most unlikely person sometimes becomes your ally.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.
Sometimes I am convinced there is nothing wrong with this country that couldn't be cured by the magical implantation of ethical standards on us all - leaders and followers. Until that becomes doable, the Center for Public Integrity is just about the best thing we have going for us.
Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money.
For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.
Like if you're Jewish you have to wear a hat, but only in the middle of your head. But it all becomes clear the second that you realize that God is a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's.
The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.
You are the ruler of a kingdom, and whatever you think and feel becomes the law of your kingdom -- the law within your body.