What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.
Instead of this confusion, we need the unifying force of an official language, English, which is the language of success in America.
But let's not speak of what might have been. Let us speak instead of what is. You are whole.
Every reality before your eyes was once imagined in the mind of one person. No matter who judges or knocks your dream, pay no attention to them. Instead, create what you imagine, and you will then be amazed at the Divine creative capacity you do have that will be well remembered for serving others.
Last night I didn't realize I said "abortion" in my stand up comedy act instead of "circumcision. " No wonder I got blank stares at "rabbi got faint at sight of blood. "
If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.
It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
There's a part of us that looks at our iPhones instead of talking to people because we're shy or because we're a little uncomfortable, but there's also a part where everyone is working so fast and so hard that to actually listen, or to be thoughtful, or to do what you suggested, which is to take even a moment to say, "What can I do that would express care for somebody else?" that is a difficult thing for people to do because they're so overwhelmed with business.
Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
When a man works by faith, he works by mental exertion instead of by physical force.
I have a very strong paternal streak. I'm a born father. . . I get such enjoyment out of being with children. Now they are enjoyable little things. They really are. I like their kind of humor. You can stuff all your punk bands, give me three children instead.
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering. . . tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.
I don’t think we ever really live in the present; instead, we’re either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That’s where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.
As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.
[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.
Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.
The way a musical can make us feel is unlike anything else, in song and particularly in dance. I think people fly through plate-glass windows when they get shot because movies don't have dance scenes any more. This is what we do instead.
Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.
You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.