The “layman” need never think of his humbler task as being inferior to that of his minister. Let every man abide in the calling wherein he is called and his work will be as sacred...

It’s basically a joke.” “I think it’s cool,” Julian says. “It’s all about control, right?” He considers something. “It’s not a joke. You should take it seriously. I mean, you’re also one of the producers–”...

I have no rules. For me, it’s a full, full experience to make a movie. It takes a lot of time, and I want there to be a lot of stuff in it. You’re looking...

I don’t know what a credit bubble means. I don’t even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don’t think they have any meaning.

Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Just because it is peaceful, it doesn’t mean it is still and void, as a few may think. It is insightful, powerful and full of meaning. It is when...

It isn’t enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn’t anecdote. It’s the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the...

A translator, caught in the space between two tongues. Such people tend to come a little bit unglued from the task of trying to convey meaning from one code to the other. The transfer is...

Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death

Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least until one’s midlife crisis, to the belief that existence consists of an eternal, upward spiral of achievement, dependent on...

But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet...

In modern society the term “no” have changed meaning. It now seems to be an abbreviation for “Negotiations Open”.

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily...

There’s no satisfactory way of closing the book on this. I think people are well meaning when they say they’re going to move on. But I don’t think it’s realistic.

That’s the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

People don’t follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

unfair” experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.

God, it’s like reality’s completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can’t...

Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve.

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places?Look for delusion and truth in thebottom of your own heart.

The real battle for Christians today is not Armageddon, it is the battle for a sensible approach to that ancient library of books we call the Bible. The Bible was written by human beings, with...

A place without meaning is no place to be.

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.