Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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 am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
Everyone's going to die, and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.
At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.
You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.
I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.
My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
At times I ask myself if I shouldn't be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.
I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.
I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.
Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.
I went to Texas a few times for gigs and adopted the cowboy look. Every man, at some point in his life, goes through a cowboy stage - everyone! Well, at least everyone that I look up to!
Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
I don't count that relationship with Ricky. It's just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.
