Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
Lou knew that joy unshared was a halved emotion, just as sadness and loss, when borne alone, were often doubled.
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.
Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time; they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?
How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?. . . only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
I never used to like babies. I'd always thought if a baby were more like a chimpanzee, I'd have one
He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'.
About a year ago I got really exhausted from reading bad scripts and I know that I am a writer and that I have stories to tell, so I thought, 'Let's do this!' So I'm co-writing a screenplay now with another screenwriter and loving it. Absolutely loving it. And I would like to be the producer on the project and of course the lead is me.