Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.
Fame really works against actors, in a way, because our anonymity is a wonderful thing for us.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Most marriages are a mess, and the children get caught between two bitter, antagonistic parents. My parents stayed married for 27 unhappy years, till their kids were grown, and this was a catastrophe for us.
Education broadens our horizons and enables us to confront realities we'd never before anticipated.
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
The Bible is not an antiquated text. The scriptures are the text that will lead us into the future.
We have antiquated policies that were put in place in the 1970s that prohibit us from exporting our crude oil, yet we have allies around the globe asking the United States to provide them with a stable supply of energy.
