Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
The question the electorate asks is: 'What can you do for us? Are you just using us to defeat somebody because you have a personal grievance?'
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.
Before even Court Grip, I just wanted to be a part of a brand that I felt that listened to the athlete and really catered to the athlete, and gave us what we were looking for.
My father did not groom us for politics. I took the plunge because I wanted to carry on his work in his constituency.
Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor laid the groundwork for us as Indian-Americans. How can we add our story to their groundwork is the question.
My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough.
Every observation that we make, every mission that we send to various places in the solar system is just taking us one step further to finding that truly habitable environment, a water-rich environment.
In my opinion, any navy less than that which would give us the habitual command of our own coast and seas would be little short of useless.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Haiti should remind us all that there is an immediate need to invest in and promote long-term development projects that are sustainable, scalable, and proven to work.