By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

It is glorious to become a learner again at my time of life.

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.

Life isnt about waiting for the storm to pass...Its about learning to dance in the rain.

God doesn't go to jail for the pound of weed you got caught going over the Laredo with - even though he apparently has the knowledge, power, and care to prevent it - you go to jail. God passes go and the courts collect two hundred dollars.

Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.

Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing.

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, 'How would you like to be a horrible actor?' Then you say, 'All right, that sounds good. I'll do that.'

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare where nobody is responsible for anything.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

Making $1,260 a week at 17 years old? That was a million dollars a week to me!

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.

It took me a long time to know enough about writing to really write short stories. You can't just immerse yourself, as you do in a novel, and see where everything goes. Novels are a very flexible, accommodating form. Short stories aren't.

Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting.

The best way to make money is to have more economic freedom, which is why we are one of the very few large companies that are consistently for it.

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of Indian society.

I'm not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

Richard Nixon as a 12-year-old was given a portrait of Lincoln that he hung over his bed. Nixon also justified what would later be seen as abuses of power by comparing America in the Vietnam era to the country during the Civil War.