A sure-fire way to know you're crazy is if more than one person has told you you'd be great on a reality show - and you agree with them.
When I was younger I was obsessed with 'Star 80,' and it's just a great movie - I think I saw it three times in the theater.
I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.
A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.
There are plenty of examples of people who have had busy lives out there in the world, trying to do good, and written very well at the same time.
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
