My failures has helped me as much as my successes..

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, alth….

You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the p….

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I mat….

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away..

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball..

The fool tries to adjust the truth so he does not have to adjust to it..

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligat….

What I am trying to do right now is simply focus on what is happening right now. Obviously, I would hope there are future opportunities..

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just….

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. W….

Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to r….

Turn down the porn soundtrack! Trying to concentrate here!-Shane.

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar bears that they would care ….

Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it a….

I'm not trying to fall in love on the Jersey Shore. I'm just trying to hook up..

We tell stories to talk out the trouble in our lives, trouble otherwise so often so unspeakable. It is one of our main ways of making our lives sensi….

Trying to connect to the moment, that move, that breath - this is what I have been striving for; finding the oneness that can exist with all the thin….

Bye-bye, Elan. P.S., Next time you implicate someone falsely, try to pick a pacifist..

Trying to write while I'm distracted definitely doesn't work for me. I'm also a compulsive saver of my files, so every writing session ends with me e….

There were periods in Islamic history when things like apostasy and blasphemy were made punishable. So you know it kind of depends - there's no argum….