I believe in second chances in life.
In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.
Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be.
My primary and secondary education was in French, which had a lasting influence on my life.
In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He turned it down. For someone raised in a remote farming town, this would have been his opportunity to transform his life, a ticket to a bigger world.
You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.
It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life.
It's a social life, or time to read the comment section: I prefer social life.
I plan my life in 15-minute sections.
A secure retirement is one of the pillars of middle class life. For all too many Americans, however, that pillar needs more support.
I'm very protective of my online life, and I try and take as many security measures.
I live a pretty sedentary life, usually. I'm not an action man at all.
If we live a sedentary life, you're going to be depressed and lack confidence. So get out there and get active.
Like our physical bodies, our memory becomes out of shape. As children, we are constantly learning new experiences, but by the time we reach our 20s, we start to lead a more sedentary life both mentally and physically. Our lives become routine, and we stop challenging our brains, and our memory starts to suffer.
There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the answers.' It would be wrong for me to say that I don't get seduced by certain things. That things don't become tempting.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
When I got the script for 'The Art of Seduction,' I realised I'd never been in a comedy, so I decided to experiment. What the character went through could never happen in my own life.
Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
