Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Miscellaneous is always the largest category.

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff"-negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

In martial arts, every time you graduate, move to another level, you don't forget everything you've done. You build on it, but it's always there.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.

It should be clear to all, after the past ten years, that NATO isn't attacking Serbia because of Milosevic; it is attacking Milosevic because of Serbia.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.

Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!

Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

Twitter's a funny one. I mean, it's good in some respects, but I can't stand it in other respects. You know there are too many opinions, people get opinions mixed up, and people get being rude mixed up with 'that's my opinion.'

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.

Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.

When I was younger, all I cared about was what people thought of me and my films. Now I care less about catering, hand-serving, hand-feeding the audience. I've gotten to the point now in my life where I'm serving myself.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

I say all the time I think there should be some courses in the regular schooling system that isn't, even like about credit, things that matter later in life. I learned the harder way: 'Look, I got a $500 credit card in the mail, let's go shopping!'

I do not believe they've run out of surprises.

You have to make difficult choices in your life, and you just have to be happy with them.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something.