Time
(page 17)
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
A friend is what the heart needs all the time.
I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
I might have lived long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been just another soul taking up time and space for a long spell before I learned.
I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It's about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.
People always tell you, 'Be humble. Be humble.' When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
For those of us who aren't great with people, we figure that silence is always the safest bet. If you're an introvert, you spend so much of your time wishing that other people would just shut the hell up that you figure you're doing everyone a favor.
I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
I've gone the full spectrum — from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop — and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!
That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It's an uplifting experience, and there's a sense of elation.
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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