Chess is my life, but my life is not chess.
I have spent all my life advocating on behalf of the poor, oppressed and marginalized. As a social justice and human rights activist, and now as President of the Republic of Malawi, I have a deep appreciation for the challenges of those on the margins of society.
In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.
A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.
In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'
I grew up in a house where service to the country was a way of life, not a means of reaching a personal goal.
How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
I am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
One of the great privileges of my life was growing up in a house without books.
I can't imagine a more loyal employee to have than somebody who's laid their life on the line for their country.
I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.
Married or unmarried, young or old, poet or worker, you are still a dreamer, and will one time know, and feel, that your life is but a dream.
Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
I see my job as being to facilitate the life of clinical researchers so that they can be more productive, and trying to keep the bureaucracy from getting in their way.
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.
The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.
In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic.
Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.
I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.
The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.
I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative projects.
I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.
Being pregnant is supposed to be the happiest time in your life.
New York offers a bubble out of the literary life that is very useful. We have more time for the children, for the cooking.
Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that's very clear.