Thailand was built on compassion.
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.
Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.
I'm not a comedian. And I'm not sick. The world is sick, and I'm the doctor. I'm a surgeon with a scalpel for false values.
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
When people have compassion, friendship, and unity, they speak and think in a constructive way to ensure national independence and prosperity.
All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.
The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.
I think the thing about that was I was always willing to work; I was not the fastest or biggest player but I was determined to be the best football player I could be on the football field and I think I was able to accomplish that through hard work.
There are never enough I Love You's.
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
Monday Night Football. That was everything to me because you get a chance to show everybody what you're capable of. It's only two teams on that Monday night.
I don't diet. I'll eat fish; I'll eat baked chicken, pasta, beans. When the body is telling you, 'You need to indulge in something,' you need to give the body what it wants.
I would like to enlighten people.
The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
This is how I started playing: I was playing hooky one day, and the coach and the principal walked up behind me. They scared me, and I ran, and they noticed I could run really fast. They wanted me to come out for the football team.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.
Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs.
When I left Van Halen, I went in the studio and made a CD called Marching to Mars with all studio musicians. I did it immediately. With the disappointment riding on my shoulders of the breakup of the band.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
Faith is an island in the setting sun, But proof is the bottom line for everyone.
My new girlfriend vom Thailand told me: "Having a tiny d-ck is no problem!"
Still, I'd prefer her not having one.
Still, I'd prefer her not having one.
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.
The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.
Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.
If they took all the drugs, nicotine, alcohol and caffeine off the market for six days, they'd have to bring out the tanks to control you.
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
Opera is a beautiful and important diversion for me.
Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.
I love dogs.
I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'
I don't think I've had love at first sight. But, I've definitely had moments where I've seen a person, and I'm like, 'Wow, there is something different about you, and I really want to get to know you.'
T-shirt and jeans style now is where I'm at. Maybe a little rock 'n' roll T-shirt and jeans.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Nobody on this earth is perfect. Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their dark secrets and vices.
