Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
If you want to live big, then don't let the small things kill you.
A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.
The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time.
The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I don't have any rules. I don't need them. There's a sense of order that goes on all the time as things move and change, and I am that harm...
There is no such thing as a non-subjective world to a subjective mind.
There is no such thing as a person without brilliance.
Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.
There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.
If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.
What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
Dr August, there is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. He may nod, and smile, and say the right thing, but even by this pretence his soul is pushed further away from the kinship of men.
People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and cons...
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.
