To love to teach is one thing, to love those you teach is another.

Funny thing about regrets. I don’t lament what I’ve done, but rather, what I didn’t do.

Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

The only thing God didn’t do to Job was give him a computer.

Falling out of the sky was one thing, but doing so for unknown reasons was quite unacceptable. Having

Bringing a baby into the world is not like grilling enchiladas. It’s a difficult thing.

You become a different writer when you approach a short story. When things are not always having to represent other things, you find real human beings begin to cautiously appear on your pages.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that’s OK; that’s a good thing.

There’s no such thing as a chemical imbalance.

I think it’s a combination of something being well-written and well-directed and well-acted, and finding the right thing at the right time.

The funny thing is, I really feel it if I don’t run. I start getting sluggish, and I feel like I need to do it. That’s how I know that the workouts are working – I miss them if I don’t have them.

It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism – but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism.

Sweet, sweet burn of sun and summer wind, and you my friend, my new fun thing, my summer fling.

Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they’re about their own thing.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

And any man who knows a thing, knows he knows not a damn, damn thing at all.

We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

The best stories are the ones that make you think

I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.

No such thing as a Dixiecrat.

The only thing that’s going to free Huey is gun powder.

There is no such thing as a black middle class.

In the devil’s theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrongs

Think it over, think it under.

Have you ever stopped to think how weird it is that you have to take malaria pills to go to places where the population doesn’t take them, or that you get injections for yellow fever, cholera, typhus and hepatitis? None of the locals are immune to these things. They just suffer them. Drug companies can find prophylactics for rich Western holiday-makers, but not for people who live with disease the other 50 weeks of the year

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man — the mystery, the power, the freedom.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later.

Athletics: it’s a wonderful thing, it’s a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it’s incredibly exciting.

I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.

Having fun is one of the most important things you can do.

I let go of my need to control and allow the Universe to do her thing.

It is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire

One thing I loved about New Zealand was the indoor/outdoor lifestyle of the place.