You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.
Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN.
Grace is the vehicle God uses on occasion to ensure that we get precisely what we dont deserve.
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.
Arms are instruments of ill omen, not the instruments of the gentleman. When one is compelled to use them, it is best to do so without relish.
While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together.
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone. ' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.
The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.
I don't teach kids to be number 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be number 1; that's not it. You don't have to be number 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
You have to be objective about money to use it fairly. It doesn't make you any better or any more useful than any other person. Even if you use your money to help people. . . that doesn't make you better than somebody who has no money but is sympathetic and genuinely loving to fellow human beings.
It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.
To use the hands in making quicklime into mortar is better than to cross them on the breast in attendance on a prince.
I do not intend to be one of those who bemoan little results, while resting in the faithfulness of God. My cue is to take hold of the faithfulness of God and USE THE MEANS necessary to secure big results.
I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction in the world and turn that distraction into observations and then into poems.
The longer the battle lasts the more force we'll have to use!
I don't use real people for inspiration.