To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you'd would wake up times and hope that the next day you'd be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
At the same time I was being given a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
I really, really love being a mum and I absolutely love being a singer so I couldn't be happier.