Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.
People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.
Storytelling helps us understand each other, translate the issues of our times, and the tools of theater and film can be powerful in helping young people to develop communication/collaboration skills, let alone improving their own confidence.
Although I managed my schedule to be home by late afternoon most days, basically, Roselle raised our children alone. And so I missed out on a lot of wonderful moments, missed watching my kids grow into the wonderful people they are today.
Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Aus...
Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.
Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
In real life, love and hate are often only separable if we’re willing to recognize our demons and choose to become better people.
She said, 'People are like stars, but it's stories that turn us into constellations. If we don't tell our stories, we burn alone in the dark.
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.
But our forest is sacred & magical with many unusual creatures & plants.We don’t want people to destroy everything!
We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.
How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.
This can be lonely work, but it connects you to other people in ways that many of the things we could do with our lives do not.
It may be bad for you, but government has no role in dictating our lives. People should be free to imprison themselves.
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
