I play a lot of characters where I don't even speak in my own voice. I learned about focus and I learned to trust that things can work when they're not heightened and that it's interesting when things are pared down.
Some praise me, some blame me. I go the other way.
Don't forget love; it will bring you all the madness you need to unfurl yourself across the universe.
If living on fruits and water is of superior merit, monkeys and fish will go to heaven before men.
O my companion, Worldly comfort is an illusion, As soon you get it, it goes.
I know a cure for sadness: Let our hands touch something that makes your eyes smile.
I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.
Do what you believe to be right, and ever hold it for a maxim, that if the skies fall through your doing right, honest men will survive the ruin.
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian. "
God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.