I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to ‘Roseanne’ and ‘Cybil.’

What is familiar tends to become a value.

What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you didn’t know your worth? What if you settled on familiar, but God was...

Lying didn’t feel good; it just felt familiar.

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death – and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That...

Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open you up to something new and exotic, those that are old and familiar, those that bring up lots of questions, those...

I think we’re always intrigued by things we’re not familiar with.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That’s why we don’t know so much about stupidity.

Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way?

When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person makes it obvious that the first will never fulfill you, unless the second...

Musical theatre is something I’m familiar with, I’ve been doing that.

I don’t put myself out there, so people aren’t necessarily familiar with me or my face.

I had never auditioned for Broadway – any play – and I was not familiar with what you’re supposed to do.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

For I have nothing to lean on, nowhere to call my home and there is nowhere I will go for Christmas to rest my head and touch familiar walls. I have no degree to show...

People aren’t familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

You see, a witch has to have a familiar, some little animal like a cat or a toad. He helps her somehow. When the witch dies the familiar is suppose to die too, but sometimes...

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

It was as if his song was one voice, calling out into the darkness until it was answered by another, harmonizing with its own unique voice and emotion to create something even more beautiful than...

The chains that keep you bound to the past are not the actions of another person. They are your own anger, stubbornness, lack of compassion, jealousy and blaming others for your choices. It is not...