The goal is to reduce the size and scope of government spending, not to focus on the deficit. The deficit is the symptom of the disease.
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums and follow your heart.
To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
I love so many different types of music - hard rock, bebop, jazz fusion, R&B. And I've loved meeting and painting so many amazing artists like Lionel Richie, Ronnie Wood, Sia, Steven Tyler, Swizz Beatz, Taylor Swift, James Moody, The Fifth Dimension, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Michael Jackson. It makes me smile thinking about each one of them.
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.
I don't know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away. A girl should be really easy to talk to. When I lose track of time because we've been talking, I think that's really fun.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.
There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
To be free is to have achieved your life.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.
I think every single girl has something different and special about her. You find one who clicks with your vibe.
I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.
Effort without talent is a depressing situation... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
After a storm comes a calm.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
I'll never forget where I'm from. It's essential to remain humble and evolving.
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
Saying and doing are two things.
All people - African, European, American - worry about being different. But I've learned that the traits we'd rush to get rid of are the very ones that others desire. People always covet what they don't have. That's why we should look at ourselves every now and then and say, 'I'm proud of myself. I like the way I'm made.'
It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven.
Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.
I think even the most beautiful person looks stupid on Skype.
There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.