The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
If he's been married for 31 years, he's not the same man.
Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.
One is a child when one has a child. No one says, 'You will never be the same again.' Which is the truth! And we're all supposed to be happy all the time. What is that about?
I feel as though the cardboard box of my own reality has been flattened and blown open. Now I can see the edge of the world.
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.
The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.
And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.
If there's something in your life that you know needs changing, make sure you change it before God's got to change it. Because if God's got to change it, you ain't going to like it.
Motherhood has most definitely changed me and my life. It's so crazy how drastic even the small details change - in such an amazing way. Even silly things, like the fact that all of my pictures on my cell phone used to be of me at photo shoots - conceited, I know! - but now every single picture on my phone is of Mason.
You don't want to say the money changes you, but it definitely does.
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was one of them. He lived a terrible a life for the first 33 years, and then he radically changed.
After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.
I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.
After a while, you are not the same person you were when you got there.
My lifestyle, my life, everything has changed because of this show. Has it made me look different? Yes, it's changed everything for me, everything from this show. And I cannot thank every single part of 'Sons of Anarchy' enough.
When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was. Not better, necessarily; not worse, necessarily; but different.
There was a time when I used to go to Mexico every year. But then Mexico changed a lot - between 1995 and 2005, Mexico changed a lot.
Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.
