Gautama Buddha Quotes
Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I have heard firsthand from several small business owners about their struggle to borrow and their fear of taking on additional debt.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
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When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.
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My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
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A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
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Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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While you live your life aboard the ship of life be aware of the sea of life on which it floats and on which it moves forward; be aware of the prevailing winds and currents that influence your progress as the master of the ship.
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Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.
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Brenda Starr is how I learned to draw. I copied her. I admired her. She had a career.
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Follow the truth of the way. Reflect upon it. Make it your own. Live it. It will always sustain you.
