No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it's then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.
Loving yourself means being your own best friend, standing by yourself at all times, including times of failure; being there for yourself no matter what.
Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
No matter how just your words may be, you ruin everything when you speak with anger.
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.
No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.
Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth. . . . Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.
I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.
Some of my colleagues are surprised by how little personal interaction I've had with "my" authors, but I don't translate to go fishing for friends. Part of me suspects that they wouldn't like me, or that I wouldn't like them, which would inevitably get in the way of the mission. None of the theory built around translation matters to me anyway: much of the process, I find, is intuitive.
No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.
If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.
The Bible's message is that you matter to God. Our response is that God should matter to us.
No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.
It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
I don't apologize for my behavior anymore. Whatever I do or don't do shouldn't matter. Moral certainty is dangerous. Moral certainty is what makes people go to war unnecessarily and illegally. Morality, as any halfway intelligent human being would tell you, is a very subjective thing.
I think the next [21st] century will be the century of complexity. We have already discovered the basic laws that govern matter and understand all the normal situations. We don't know how the laws fit together, and what happens under extreme conditions. But I expect we will find a complete unified theory sometime this century. The is no limit to the complexity that we can build using those basic laws.