Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.
When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.
Passion, friendship, love, loyalty, trust. . . if you found the right person. . . you really could have it all.
Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!
I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle.
I was always the best athlete, people don't know that. But I was successful at everything I ever did and then I run for president, first time - first time, not three times, not six times. I ran for President first time and lo and behold, I win. And then people say oh, is he a smart person? I'm smarter than all of them put together, but they can't admit it. They had a bad year.
Good storytelling doesn't have to be in the form of the classics. It doesn't have to be revered by everybody. In fact, to me, the best storytelling is not universally loved by every single person. I think you can water down the ethicacy of the work, itself.
Healthy plants and trees yield abundant flowers and fruits. Similarly, from a healthy person, smiles and happiness shine forth like the rays of the sun.
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.
At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person.
If a person claims to have met Jesus without being changed then they have not met the real Jesus.
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always. . . always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.
Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen
I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.
I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.
Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
I think it's true that the more sanitized a person is, you can't really relate to that person.