It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun.
Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.
When I look at the Gospel, I see how it is speaking to me at this time. I see how to be to others and it helps.
When I run in the morning, my body spends the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what's happening to it.
There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.