The happiest types I’ve ever known ran puppet shows – turning puppets into people. It works much better than turning people into puppets.

In a world of scripts and stages, authenticity is the actor’s greatest gift to the audience

Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me

I think the universe works perfectly.

Why, if ’tis dancing you would be, There’s brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s ways to man. Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world’s not.

The problem with Hollywood is that nobody works. They have meals. They go to Pilates. But it’s not enough. So they do drugs. If everybody had a pile of rocks in their backyard and spent every day moving them from one side of the yard to the other, it would be a much happier place.

Singing is a limitless form of expression, and I love to experiment with my work.

Social Engineering – The art of replacing what works with what sounds good

Books are windows to different worlds

To write is to bear witness to the world

The world of literature is a world of wonder, a universe of imagination waiting to be explored

The world of literature is a world of endless possibilities

Writing is a way of exploring the world and discovering new truths about ourselves and others

The writer’s task is to reveal the hidden connections between people and the world, to uncover the universal in the particular.

The power of literature is that it brings us inside a person, a situation, a place, and allows us to see the world through their eyes.

Jerusalem doesn’t have a place just with Israelis and Palestinians, Muslims and Jews, yet to the world.

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.”

Crack cocaine is the contemporary beaver, an international fad that has radically altered the economics of the poorest, marginal people, indigenous America. The gangs are the tribes of the New World

Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end.

Of course, only Americans can name a shop In-n-Out Burger without collapsing into a heap of dirty sniggers. You know the difference between them and us? To us, a double entendre means only one thing; to them, it means absolutely nothing

Venice is a Dorian Gray city. Somewhere up there in the world’s attic, there’s another place with the haggard, poxed and ravaged face of unspeakable evil. And I suspect it’s Cardiff

We are not quite novels.
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.

No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world

This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world, without tearing myself to pieces. And rather tear myself to a thousand pieces than be buried with this world within me.

In man’s struggle against the world, bet on the world.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

The Sabbath bids us behold in His created works the glory of the Creator. And it was because He desired us to do this that Jesus bound up His precious lessons with the beauty of natural things. On the holy rest day, above all other days, we should study the messages that God has written for us in nature. We should study the Savior’s parables where He spoke them, in the fields and groves, under the open sky, among the grass and flowers. As we come close to the heart of nature, Christ makes His presence real to us, and speaks to our hearts of His peace and love.

I’m sending a message to every individual in this world that when you work hard, when you actually concentrate, when you set your priorities high, when you actually set your goals, and put them in your heart and in your mind and in your mind, you will accomplish, without any question.

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?

While I am describing to you how Nature works, you won’t understand why Nature works that way. But you see, nobody understands that.

Let’s take our time tonight, girl Above us all the stars are watchin’ There’s no place I’d rather be in this world

If you ever find yourself stuck in the middle of the sea I’ll sail the world to find you

Music has the power to inspire the world.

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that

I don’t consider myself as the best player in the world. I’m not obsessed with individual titles. I’m much more interested in being part of a team which wins trophies.

Iker has never stopped being one of the best goalkeepers in the world. For me, Iker is a top goalkeeper and has never not been.

Capitalism works better than it sounds, while socialism sounds better than it works.

I love what I do… When I’m in there I don’t want to be nowhere else in the world… I love this game more than anything.

There is something to astrology for those who believe in astrology, as there is something to medicine for those who believe in medicine. Every system works when we give our heart to it.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

For me, religion poisons everything good in the world

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

One who possesses Gold should be aware of its precious place in this world.

One either meets or one works.

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

If we do not like our work and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

There’s a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don’t involve show business. I’m going to become a television critic. Can you imagine? But I would even consider becoming a baseball scout. Traveling around the heartland looking for the next world-beating phenom.

If it works, it’s out of date.

Good works are links that form a chain of love.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.