The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.
Whipping your hair means not being afraid to be yourself.
I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
I've never really been concerned about being typecast, for me it's just about enjoying my work and being very professional in taking things on.
When you talk about 'doing the work', that's the work I'm interested in. What can I contribute as a human being?
Luck and being honest and sincere about work has worked for me and helped me reach where I am.
There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.
I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
Ivanov's fear was of a literary nature. That is, it was the fear that afflicts most citizens who, one fine (or dark) day, choose to make the practice of writing, and especially the practice of fiction writing, an integral part of their lives. Fear of...
A human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self is not the relation but is the relati...
["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating arguments. Hatred of arguments and hatred of human beings come about in the same way. For hatred of human beings arises from artlessly trusting somebody...
For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory, believes that in each person is the Creator’s image and that everyone who tramples it offends God. As hol...
Around the time my first marriage of twenty-one years was ending, I had spent a lot of time reflecting on the fairytale promises of living "happily ever after and being "forever in love." I thought about how the expectations of our families, friends,...
Talking about bulls is altogether different from being in the arena.
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
It you taste nice I may bite!
I like the idea of being with someone forever, being married to them.
