May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Trying to be a leader in a sort of very atypical workplace like ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces you to realize that no one wants you to be their leader. If you can help them get their thing on TV or whatever, they want that. But no adult is looking for a role model.
I think when you get married, it’s not a totally free ride – it’s not without its unglamorous periods and its fights and its angry noons and silent dawns or vice-versa.
What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
I am an eternally deluded person. No one is as deluded as I am. How clear this is to me when I do zazen!
I’m blessed with a lot of energy and stamina. I can’t stand sitting still. I went to a spa once with my mom and I was like, “Get me out of here!'”
It really bothers me when people don’t use coasters. Particularly on my table.
I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.
Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
What distinguishes tennis is respect for one’s opponent, one’s conduct on the court.
You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I’ll break yo face.
If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn’t need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.
What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It’s a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.
Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.
The record of Borg and Vilas? I have thought about it.
He took off his hat and shook it (having hurried home as though his own coronation were waiting), and moved now with the slow deliberation of lonely people who have time for every meager requirement of their lives.
