And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
I think the Republican Party should be a pro-life party. I am pro-life. I do not apologize for that. On the flip side of that coin, the Republican Party has been big enough to allow pro-choice advocates to be heard.
I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to.
Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dealer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.
My daughter is the biggest gift; I've said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you've cracked it, and you're on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.
There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.
I am absolutely blessed and I'm very grateful for where I am today.
No matter the hard time you experienced, you can still succeed, I want to put out that positive energy to never quit and never give up.
I want to be in a better position than what I was yesterday. The only way that can happen is by eliminating any negative ill will or feelings toward anyone.
Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Green and black go well together, don't they?
Politics is not a laboratory experiment where you can control everything. You have to take calls even when you feel that matters may spin out of your hand.
It is the daydreaming of some people who live in a make-believe world who think you can make roads, hospitals, and railways without any social impact!
Don't misjudge my self-confidence.
How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?
No law is permanent or steady. The law is not made of steel. The law is made by Parliament. It goes to the people, to the ground. A lot many suggestions come once it is implemented. So many laws have been amended after receiving people's suggestions.
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.
Despite the obvious damage now visible in the entropic desolation of every American home town, Wal-Mart managed to install itself in the pantheon of American Dream icons, along with apple pie, motherhood, and Coca Cola.
Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.
The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.
To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway.
I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York.
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.
The news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news... and it's not entirely the media's fault, bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news.
The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
Cheerleaders - we don't sweat, we sparkle.
This skull between my ears, that is a bad neighbourhood. I should not be in there alone.
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Small things make me happy, and I laugh out loud on the silliest of jokes!
Respect your partner. Be happy in your partner's happiness.
I really believe that some things happen for a reason, and they make you a better person.
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
I don't think about the negative in my life. I just think about the positives.
I'm the bad guy of the division.
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
I know I'm going to lose friends, and I'm going to go on the road less traveled with less people. But at the end of the day, I'm not trying to make friends; I'm trying to make the most money possible.
Super villains and bad guys win in real life.
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
My pace alone is unstoppable. No one can keep my pace.