It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.
In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
My grandmother was an unparalleled storyteller who gave me a preview of how life might turn out, and also fortified my empathy.
I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.
People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.
Mother is the first word that occurs to politicians and columnists and popes when they raise the question, 'Why isn't life turning out the way we want it?'
I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.
But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.
I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
Never dare to turn your subconscious mind into a shelter for thoughts or beliefs that aren't working in your favor.
Failure is sometimes inevitable, but failing to get back up is what turns a lot of people into failures.
