My life is an ongoing, ever changing adventure.
But when you personalize your life, when you make your life a place where you can be yourself, when you do things the way you want to do them, your life feels like your home. And that is a tremendous source of emotional energy.
I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.
In order to eat, you have to be hungry. In order to learn, you have to be ignorant. Ignorance is a condition of learning. Pain is a condition of health. Passion is a condition of thought. Death is a condition of life.
When you're a kid, I think you want to be a film star. And I'm not as enamoured with that any more. The reality of that life is a lot of travel, and a lot of being away, which is impractical because I have four children, so I don't want to be away that much, not the other side of the world away.
I've done some pretty bad things in my life.
Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life.
Life works better when we know how to glance at things but gaze at God.
Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
The May of life blooms once and never again.
You will be astonished when I tell you what this curious play of carbon amounts to. A candle will burn some four, five, six, or seven hours. What, then, must be the daily amount of carbon going up into the air in the way of carbonic acid!. . . Then what becomes of it? Wonderful is it to find that the change produced by respiration. . . is the very life and support of plants and vegetables that grow upon the surface of the earth.
One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.
The more you meditate the better life gets.
A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.
Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
Why is love intensified by absence?