I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.
The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.
The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.
When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.
Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
I take a massage each week. This isn't an indulgence, it's an investment in your full creative expression/productivity/passion and sustained good health.
You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.
I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.
I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.
She may hide it, but Clinton is a policy nerd. Ask about microfinance, and she'll talk your ear off. Mention early childhood interventions, and she will gush about obscure details of a home visitation experiment in Elmira, N.Y., that dramatically improved child outcomes.
With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.
When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your other activities.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
