Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Then we can help these failed states turn around and give their people a better life. This, too, is a critical part of this global war on terrorism, and Canada and the United States are together.
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.
Just because you're scarred for life doesn't mean you should be scared to live.
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.
I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.