Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this comedy.
Ironically, since Obama was elected, for the first time in my life I'm sometimes not proud of my country.
There is a paranoid streak in American life. Radio talk show hosts tend to foment that paranoid streak in American life.
After I left the Marines in '46, I wanted to stay in the Marines; I was very happy - I loved that life.
We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.
I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.
The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of extreme cruelty in a past life.
You learn how to take care of people from the women in your life.
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
