Life has a way of working out the way it's meant to.
We may not have a future, but you can't deny we have a past.
. . . when I came back, I found Mom sobbing at the kitchen table. . . Then I asked her what had happened. 'Nothing,'she said. 'I was thinking about that man. . . I started thinking about. . . if he and his wife and their other child are okay, and I don't know. It just got to me. ' 'I know,' I said, because I did know. Sometimes it's safer to cry about people you don't know than to think about people you really love.
The only way you can be the best at something is to be the best you can be.
I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at.
If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.
The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.
Philosophy is based on speculation, on logic, on thought, on the synthesis of what we know and on the analysis of what we do not know. Philosophy must include within its confines the whole content of science, religion and art.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
I know not what tomorrow will bring.
. . . Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.