General quotes
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Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
Audiences change because life changes. Countries change geographically, climatically, socially and morally. Many things happen, and cinema, in a sense, reflects what's happening in the world.
My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
I get way too much happiness from good food.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?
Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
People look at me and look, but I do not care.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
A film is — or should be — more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.
If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.
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