Quotes

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury.

My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do what he needed to do to support the family. But he told me, 'Life is short. Do what you want to do.'

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I've always read a lot of fiction - you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I'd try.

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

When God comes into your life, He lights a candle in your soul.

I would give my life if necessary to protect my children. I'm concerned with giving them the right food and clothes to wear... If they're exposed to homosexuality I might as well feed them garbage.

It is sad when a particular group of people, no matter what they are, are able to... thrust their way of life on a society.

Let us continue to reach out in godly love to all homosexuals who want deliverance, while opposing at the threshold every attempt of the militant homosexuals to represent their lifestyle as 'normal,' and to impose it on us and our children.

I'd like to live a normal life. I'd like to be able to go out and play some tennis. I'd like to be able to water ski - do a lot of things.

I guess when there's a real void in your life and your marriage has become rotten, you fantasize a lot of things.

Twice a year we film the orange juice commercials and at home in our daily life I try to involve the children as much as possible even in preparing meals.

I had worked with homosexuals all my life and I always had a policy of live and let live.

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life.

Everything in life is a double-edged sword.

It's important to me to keep testing myself in life so that I don't get pigeonholed.

There's no secret it's hard work. Even though Brian's the love of my life, and he's absolutely adorable, it's not easy, and we have to work at it. But because we love each other and keep working at it, it pays off.

Something devastating can happen to you, and it can have positive consequences. By the same token, something fantastic can happen, and it can bring a lot of trouble. That's life.

I think you can do as much damage to yourself going to the gym and running as you do good. So my mission in life is just to keep myself 'good' - in good health, as fit as I can be, a little bit of stretching, and just think positive and enjoy life.

People were following me home in cars, singing outside my window at my flat. I couldn't go to pubs or supermarkets or walk down the street. It was bizarre, but that was my life.