It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.
Our lives disappear, even as we live them.
If you feel lucky, then you are.
It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.
So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?" Now that, I think, is a very good asking.
We should say to the West: "You have been supporting dictators for too many years. Don't expect the people to introduce democracy over night. It is going to take time. " It took time with the French revolution, it took time with the Eastern European revolutions. And it is going to take time there.
My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage.
One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.