Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.
After centuries of dormancy, young women... can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.
And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.
I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
I believe we must seek God's will, never presuming to identify it with our own program or power.
A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Instead of begging OPEC to drop its oil prices, let's use American leadership and ingenuity to solve our own energy problems.
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
There's nothing like reading about a world that feels dead to throw your own beautiful, colorful life into sharp relief.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.