William Penn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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People always used to say to me, 'Don't you want your own show? That'd be so cool if you had your own show.' I said, 'You know, it's not gonna happen. So – no.'
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and - our former riches.
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His decision to study the law had got him as far as hiring Twelve Angry Men from a video shop.
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I really believe that if you're going to bring a child into the world, it's your job to parent that world. Especially if it's just you; you don't pawn her off on somebody.
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We recognized that for our future, and for the way the customer was now shopping, we had to have one point of view. All roads lead back to the customer.
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It was so quiet, you could hear a pun drop.
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The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.
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It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the power of stories, and make it an important feature in our world again.
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Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me.
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I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.
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I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.
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leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
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Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.
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What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
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When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
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Life doesn't come with an instruction manual.
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
