I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.
There is no real happiness in having or getting, but only in giving.
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.
The price of being the best is having to be the best.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
There's no downside to having too much experience.
I'm not a big believer in a thing called luck. I believe it has a lot to do with fate and just really having a vision of the way you would see your life.
Rise above the dualities, the opposites. See this whole world as the bubbles on the surface of water. See people as bubbles on the surface of the Brahman, of the Infinity. . . Water bubbles up, rises up. Like that, everybody is rising and having their own games and plays and dissolving back into the Infinite.
When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did.
I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.
I'm not talking about having to consult Julia Child before you can take a pot off the rack. I think that's something we can all do more and do better.
Having a bad haircut can be quite traumatic!
Consider the case of a person who holds a view with probability 1. Then coherence says that it is no use having a debate with them because nothing will change their mind.
Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the text one way or another.
Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
Everything I thought about acting and having a movie career has changed from what I thought when I started.
The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer found having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. HaHa! Jokes on you dummies. . . I'm not really a lawyer!
Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.