Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape.
So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.
It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.
It's no different than anything else in anybody else's life. Doesn't matter how simple or complex. There are days you hate it and days you love it.
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
With stand-up, it doesn't matter who you are. If the audience claps because they love your movies, that clapping stops after five seconds, and then it's your job to make them laugh.
At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'
I would love Giuliana small, medium, large or extra large and I will love her no matter how much weight she gained.
Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue, no matter whether he be a prince, or one of the people.
I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.
If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.
A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they're at in their lives.
No matter how strong the winds of trials and tribulations blow, never take your sight off from the prize ahead.
Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).
No matter how talented or skilled you are, you will never reach your full potential without expert guidance.
No matter how successful or great you become, never forget that you are nothing without the mercy of God.
