Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.
I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
Perhaps our own opposition to even the level of European integration we have now, let alone any more, is well known.
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.
Your kids might feel more apt to try some art of their own after viewing contemporary works that are far less intimidating than those of the Old Masters.
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
NOTHING goes exactly as planned. Make your OWN destiny
you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.
First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
Even in the most compassionate, humankind's limited scope of mercy was reserved for their own.
[B]ut pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable.
I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
Better to find your own way than to blindly trust the words of others, whoever they are.
