God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to Notre Dame. Everything happens for a reason.
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.
Leadership is happening, but it's not coming from the leaders of the old institutions. Everywhere you look, you see these extraordinary, sparkling new initiatives that are under way.
To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.
In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.
I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
I've never really played everyday people. I've played realist roles, but not mere daily life. There was always something incredible happening to my characters.
When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens.
I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very much - and its big, awkward, sprawling people.
Someone asked me a while back, 'Why do artists always write about love?' And I was like, 'Love is the coolest thing that's ever happened in the world.'
If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof.
