We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
But the day I can't shrug off a twinge of self-pity, is the day I'm washed up for keeps.
Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.
It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires.
The good painter is the one who buries a color every day.
I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.
When a man leaves you notes saying he loves you, or asks how your day was - and then listens - you feel special.
I thought there were the day before when Hillary Clinton coughed for about, I don't know, 15 minutes and then coughed on the airplane and then spit something up. I don't know what's wrong with her but they kind of hide her.
You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day
Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.
In 50 years - or 20 years, or 200 years - our current epistemic horizon (the Big Bang, roughly) may look as parochial as the horizon Newton had to settle for in his day, but no doubt there will still be good questions whose answers elude us.
There were times when I purposely didn't go to school because of Pearl Harbor Day, because certainly there was enough media about it every year to remind everybody. So when I heard they were going to make the movie, I thought, "Oh, no, please not another Pearl Harbor mention!"
Never fear the golding of a sunset. It means more than just the closing of another day. But marks the brightness of a new dawn.
I write music every day.
Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.
Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
Disabused of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.
Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.
A day without writing was a little death.
A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.