To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth... both financial affluence and emotional security.
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.
The aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
There's so much left to achieve, there's so much more to do, there's so much that has not been done.
A cigar is as good as memories that you have when you smoked it.
People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired.
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000.
The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.
In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
When I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.