Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius.
Oh, yes - being interested in acting never changes. Acting is in your blood, and of course I'll always be interested in it.
Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.
True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity.
You're much better off creating positive rewards, complimenting people for acting correctly, rather than punishing them when they act incorrectly.
If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do i...
Stories don’t teach us to be good; it isn’t as simple as that. They show us what it feels like to be good, or to be bad. They show us people like ourselves doing right things and wrong things, acting bravely or acting meanly, being cruel or being...
The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the s...
There are times in relationships, when we blow it. In spite of our best intentions, we wrong others. Our jealousy makes us feel inferior. Our own wounds cause us to act irrationally. Our insecurities lead us to say hurtful things. And so, we find our...
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.
Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations.
Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.
Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195
No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.
Hackers are seen as shadowy figures with superhuman powers that threaten civilization.
What 'primitive' men called gossip, 'civilized' men call news.
