Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
Quotes to Explore
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
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Αἰόλ᾽ ἀνθρώπων κακά,πόνου δ᾽ ἴδοις ἂν οὐδαμοῦ ταὐτὸν πτερόν.
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I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
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I was born in the Coolidge administration. Can you believe that? So I've seen a lot of politics.
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The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.
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I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
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If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
