What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

No man can discover his own talents.

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

If you greatly desire something have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

The first step to be a good man is this. You must deeply feel the burden of the stones some else is carrying

People ask me why I'm so hard on men. It's because they've gotten a really easy ride. And it's not that I think women should take over the world. But I do think it should be 50/50.

I went to Vortex and Vortex is a whole 'nother story.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

A man's reputation has been very aptly compared to a sheet of white paper; if it be once blotted, it can hardly ever be made to look as white as before.

You have to stick to what you love and purse that at all costs. Don't choose money first; it won't make you happy.

But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

Acting takes a lot of practice, but so does auditioning.

Most human beings have enough sense to know that if they work in a city that has a serious smog problem, it's wise to either stay indoors or at least wear a mask that will filter out the poison. But cigarette smokers have their own little concentrated toxic smog pack that they don't avoid.

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

I stand with everyone who is sick of hearing about Washington cutting insider deals to their friends in business, politicians failing on their promises to fight increases in government spending, and more costly and complicated rules from Washington that make everyone's lives harder.

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'm a huge control freak - and because I write in thumbnails, the art is already happening by the time I start writing!

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I'm not unashamed to say that I like movies that make me verklempt.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

I jokingly refer to the word "gourmet" as the "g" word.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

Like all parents my husband and I just do the best we can and hold our breath and hope weve set aside enough money to pay for our kids therapy.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.