Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.
i heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
History shows: Whenever people try to pull you down, you will reach peaks of success. You just need the ability to ignore.
The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
When you listen to yourself, everything comes naturally. It comes from inside, like a kind of will to do something. Try to be sensitive. That is yoga.
Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.
It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.
I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.
I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.
When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.
Taking care of yourself isn’t about trying to become perfect. It’s about realizing and honouring, in every moment, that you already are.
I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.
Someone gives jewelry, and there's a bit of romance. If you buy it from a store, the store is trying to romance you. Even when I'm making the jewelry, I have to be romanced.
Give yourself an even greater challenge than the one you are trying to master and you will develop the powers necessary to overcome the original difficulty.
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
