The bankruptcy of the Democrat elite is well-illustrated by the obsession with alleged Russian meddling with our sacred elections. Whatever it might amount to – apparently very little – it cannot begin to compare with the “meddling” of campaign funding…
Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.
However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own
There is no diet for a big ego.
I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don’t wanna do the same thing over and over again because that’s, well, first of all that’s no fun.
The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.
Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio.
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
We don’t say that three-year-olds are lying if they say they saw a dragon outside, or an actor in a play. It’s also not clear that it’s tactically useful to tot up the random falsehoods that pepper [Trump’s] tweets and orations.
If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.
Failure to plan ahead on your part does not create an emergency on my part.
A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.
That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.
The ecological crisis, in short, is the population crisis. Cut the population by 90% and there aren’t enough people left to do a great deal of ecological damage.
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it.
Wars are necessary to teach us lessons we seem unable to learn any other way.
To choose time is to save time.
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.
