You
(page 2)
Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structure of society produced goodwill; and that, therefore, you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. It is possible that I believe something of the same again; but after the war, I did not because I was unable to.
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
Fitness is not about being better than someone else... It's about being better than you used to be.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
That's been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Be magnificent. Life's short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The beauty of reading is that it lets you travel in a way you could never know.
I've always wanted to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids or Rome at the height of the empire or Greece — more specifically, Crete before it was destroyed. Why? Because I'm curious how we all hung out on a day to day basis, what was the chit chat, etc. Reading things in a book never gives you the feel.
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.
Do you mind if I sit back a little? Because your breath is very bad.
Loading ...