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“I am the way the way the truth and the life, no one comes to the father but through me”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
― Judy Garland

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― E.B. White

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Be funny whenever possible, even if some people don't get it.”
― Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends

“Fake confidence on the outside often trumps truthful turmoil on the inside.”
― Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends

“The best part is not the biggest, it's the one that's most memorable.”
― Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends

“They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.”
― Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends

“I’ve never agreed with the conventional wisdom that ‘actors are great liars.’ If more people understood the acting process, the goals of good actors, the conventional wisdom would be ‘actors are terrible liars,’ because only bad actors lie on the job. The good ones hate fakery and avoid manufactured emotion at all costs. Any script is enough of a lie anyway. (What experience does any actor have with flying a spacecraft? Killing someone?) What’s called for, what actors are hired for, is to bring reality to the arbitrary.”
― Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends

“Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.”
― Rob Lowe, Love Life

“If you are fortunate enough to be part of a hit, particularly a transcendent one, all emotional ownership is transferred from you to the audience. They judge it and embrace it; project their own hopes, dreams, and fears onto it; take their personal meaning from its themes, and with these investments it becomes theirs. The significance of your participation pales in comparison to the significance the project has on their imaginations.”
― Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends

“Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn't have to be a secret seaplane and a historic sports moment, but to have a great life you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your lfe. Work at it like a job. Money from effort comes and goes, but effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.”
― Rob Lowe, Love Life

“I’ve said before that the common perception that all good actors should be good liars is exactly the opposite; only bad actors lie when they act.”
― Rob Lowe

“Making memories matters”
― Rob Lowe, Love Life

“They don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. The sad truth about divorce is that it’s hard to teach your kids about life unless you are living life with them: eating together, doing homework, watching Little League, driving them around endlessly, being bored with nothing to do, letting them listen while you do business, while you negotiate love and the frustrations and complications and rewards of living day in and out with your wife. Through this, they see how adults handle responsibility, honesty, commitment, jealousy, anger, professional pressures, and social interactions. Kids learn from whoever is around them the most.”
― Rob Lowe, Stories I Only Tell My Friends

“I think it was Alfred Hitchcock who said 90 percent of successful moviemaking is in the casting. The same is true in life. Who you are exposed to, who you choose to surround yourself with, is a unique variable in all of our experiences and it is hugely important in making us who we are. Seek out interesting characters, tough adversaries and strong mentors and your life can be rich, textured, highly entertaining and successful, like a Best Picture winner. Surround yourself with dullards, people of vanilla safety and unextraordinary ease, and you may find your life going straight to DVD.”
― Rob Lowe, Love Life

“There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.”
― Rob Lowe, Love Life

“There is only one predator more formidable than a lion: fear.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo