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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy.
'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Spacewalking trumps everything. Viscerally, it is a phenomenal place to be; to be able to glance right and see the world, glance left and see the universe, and realise for a moment that you're holding on to your known existence with one hand. That's the thing.
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains — I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
You know, not everybody can afford to pay $58 for prime rib or $650 for a bottle of wine. My friends and I cook for regular families who worry about feeding their kids and paying the bills.
Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
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