It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
We deserve a president of the United States who will write laws for all Americans, not for campaign contributors. And I intend to be a president for all Americans who takes back the flag of our country because it doesn't belong to any party, doesn't belong to any president.
It takes 21 days to develop a habit.
It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place. . . it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.
I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.
When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
You gotta have a schedule, you gotta have a team that's passionate about seeing you do the things you say you wanna do. When it comes to delivering this, it takes a lot of work and I can't do that on my own.
You have to stay in character in between takes.
Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.
Most products are ugly. The harsh reality is that in many of these markets, form follows funding. And that products go where the market takes them.
Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity. . . So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will.
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.
If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.
Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.
The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.
It takes a society to raise a generation.