My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads round and green these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.
I had faith in Israel before it was established I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
There's tons of creative people in television that have one failure after another and they just step up higher. I could never get over that. When I had a failure there was no such thing as just getting over it.
We decided to try in vitro because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!
Other countries such as Israel successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports but the bloated ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
I believe in trusting men not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Think twice before you speak because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing and finding out they were another.
I don't think people should have boundaries put on them by themselves or society or another gender because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.
I eventually became proud of my strikeouts because each one represented another learning experience.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience because it's complete. For another kind of writer life goes on and he's able to keep processing that as well.
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself and your imagination and experience but actually in the end you're not playing yourself.
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience therefore would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.
The more you are getting older you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage because of your long experience you can use it.
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
I believe that like most writers my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.