One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby. '
Those are facts. Are they the truth? No, for they do not tell you of the heart, and that is where truth lives.
When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.
If you were a man, your ladyship, I would cordially horsewhip you for that remark.
I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.
One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.
If one has a purpose, life is bearable enough, do you not think so?
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
Television has changed how we choose our leaders. It elected Ronald Reagan and a host of Kennedy-look-alike congressmen with blow-dried hair and gleaming teeth. It destroyed Senator Joe McCarthy by showing him in action and it created Jerry Falwell.
Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.
I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.