The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.
Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
I guess I'm fairly insistent and maybe consistent. If I decide I'll do something, I generally will.
Above all, remember that God looks for solid virtues in us, such as patience, humility, obedience, abnegation of your own will - that is, the good will to serve Him and our neighbor in Him. His providence allows us other devotions only insofar as He sees that they are useful to us.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.
Installing an activist liberal majority on the Supreme Court will put religious liberties at risk for generations to come.
I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that's how I've felt about bands I love.
Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously.
We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.
I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers.
While Slovakia did not make the first round of NATO membership, as various requirements and reforms are instituted, these actions will enhance the opportunities to join NATO.
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Institutionalized racism has been with us pre-Obama, and it obviously will be with us post-Obama.
We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do.
