A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
The fastest way to destroy love is to make a goal out of it, because people who are trying to be loved come from a place that they're not loved.
Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the person's life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most of us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs. . . Individuals transform when there's a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction they've already got.
Consider that all accomplishment is constituted by a series of resolved breakdowns.
At all times and under all circumstances, we have the power to transform the quality of our lives.
So long as you do not know who you really are, this will be difficult. You may have to give up a lot of things to which you may be attached. You may have to give up your resentments, your anger, your upset, your annoyance, your desire to punish.
It's just hard not to listen to TV: it's spent so much more time raising us than parents have.
I know there are a lot of people who believe in me as a player and a person, and I don't want to let them down.
Many of my colleagues are blissfully unaware of the global percentage of people who cannot EVER go to a movie theater, let alone with an entire family. I do not want to make movies for the rich.
I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.