The bits I most remember about my school days are those that took place outside the classroom, as we were taken on countless theatre visits and trips to places of interest.
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.
You take yourself to a place where you've got absolutely nothing left and then you find out you have to push yourself one more step. That's a tough place to be in.
You might think that shifting your thoughts is as easy as setting your mind to it. But stressful thoughts aren't held in place through choice or will power. They're held in place through perceived truth value.
In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It's the place of reflection and contemplation, and it's the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way.
Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
When I travel, people say ‘Yet another place in this world’. But I see ‘Another world inside every place I go
Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.
If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays.
We're all the same in the dark.
Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light
This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.
There's more to light than the opposite of dark.
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
Death is staring too long into the burning sun and the relief of entering a cool, dark room.
No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
I could have carried on in comedy. But my life was dark.
Life is one long struggle in the dark.
