The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.
You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.
Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what's leads to a more fulfilling life.
I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.
I never called a balk in my life. I didn't understand the rule.
Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.
Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.
I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.
I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing variations on the same themes. And, besides, it would look kinda creepy for a guy my age to be doing stuff that, like, a 20-year-old would do. 'Yeah, this is bullshit!' It's, like, 'Really? You don't have bigger concerns at this point in your life?'
It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib.
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight.
I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.
Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.