The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.
It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book and turn over the pages and for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Do whatever work feeds your true self, even if it’s not a safe bet, even if it’s like a crazy risk, even if everyone in your life tells you you’re wrong or bad or crazy.
Buddha's Wife tells a fascinating story, little known in the west, about the woman whom Buddha left behind. Gabriel Constans focuses the reader's attention on the strong and complicated women who surrounded Buddha and makes us re-think the nature of spiritual life.
Don't worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn't matter who you've been, who you are, or who you become. I'm with you every step of the way.
Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.
No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do
Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.
Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.
I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate, I'm not sure which is correct - habit of editing while I'm writing which everyone tells me that I shouldn't do that. But that's just the way I write and I think it's important to stay true to your own writing style and momentum.
My own experience, though, as a business executive and as a governor, tells me that businesses are interested in a lot more than a low tax rate when they decide where to locate.
I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.