I’ve seen so many excellent actors – excellent actors – who, the minute they’re told they’re in a comedy, turn into God knows what – creatures from another planet! I mean they just… the voice...

We are living under siege.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

The success of a civil order should not be judged by its most affluent members, but by the standard of living of its poor.

Good question. The stock market is living proof that everybody loves to bet, and we think a wager on this prediction will appeal to all who follow the markets, whether they are big or small...

Trust that whatever you are dealing with, whatever doorway to crisis you experience, it is leading you to a greater lesson in liwing where ideally the power of love is what you learn. Forgive, and...

I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take,...

I hope I don’t write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself “When did they live?” I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live!...

Free your mind from the prison of your past. Time has allowed you to grow and develop into the person you’re meant to be. Now, you are living a purposed filled life.

I think about the pepper plant, the corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, and more plants. And I’ve noticed that while those seeds are living within the fruit or vegetable they can not grow. It is only when...

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand–evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall...

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are…There’s a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive…

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and...

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition...

I think people should do whatever they want to do. That’s the point. Why should you care what other people think or say? You’re not living in their pocket.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

Be the best you even when it’s not the best day to be you

farmed animals” in the way that we treat dogs and cats whom we love and regard as members of our family. Does anyone really think that is practically possible? The fact that we would not...

We’re living in a super price-sensitive and competitive market. Companies are totally preoccupied with short-term survival. With that kind of mentality, you shouldn’t be surprised that energy research budgets have been on the skids for...

Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.

Be who you are. If a man, be one. If woman, be so. The gender-change, behaviour or role, is a mind-made turd. As illusory as this world.

Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances....

Going from sharing a one-bedroom place to living in a loft to two people living in a house to me having my own place by myself has kind of mirrored my career… small steps to...

I want to do something for a living that when it comes time to retire and I can stop doing it, I’ll want to continue doing it in my free time.

You can never forget the time you’re living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living...

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

Every day is spectacular sacred time.

It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the world. But in my little, soft realm of trying to...

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of...

I firmly disbelieve in death. A spirit never dies. Where it wanders when it leaves the flesh, is a cognitive proposition.

I need as much as I can get. The cost of living for our generation is way higher than it was for our parents.

..be able and willing to action regardless of all trauma, all the No’s, and non-supporters one could headache and pain on.

I began my work in the ’70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all...

In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite...

Can’t look at the damage that’s been done, it’s not healthy. Have to look ahead of it. Can’t change what I’ve done, only what I’m gonna do.

I think there are things that you look for when you’re younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That’s not going to happen, and it’s really...

When you see someone on top, look away and don’t try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.

Safety” and “fairness” are the preoccupation of the wounded. “Being” and “joy” are the unconscious realities of the free and living.

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.

We’re all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives...

We’ve gotten so good at growing food that we’ve gone, in a few generations, from nearly half of Americans living on farms to 2 percent. We no longer think about how the wonderful things in...

We all know we’re one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it’s not happening.

There is an independent Lebanon but there are not independent Lebanese. We don’t have citizens, we have people living here. We have to change the government and the presidency. Otherwise we are going to hell.

And the 90% they are not is what I do for a living.

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers...

I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don’t think about dying, either.