Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.
Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better imitation is not discipleship.
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk and I began to write. The result for better or for worse is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.
If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning you better see if you can locate that check.
The security comes as an actor in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career or how people perceive you you'll make yourself unhappy because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off to think 'There's nothing I can do.'
It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves you know to put other people down or make fun of them or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
After all it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them it had better be life.
A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else and if you really work hard you might get lucky and get what you want.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact than the richest without meaning.
Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings but we'll work late and be honest.
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
The better a work is the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead in fact without one.