Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

Never underestimate the effectiveness of a straight cash bribe.

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

Earth is dearer than gold.

It used to be a lot easier to get a book deal.

Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get starstruck over. I don't know what I'd do if I met him - I'd be in shock! That's my dream.

My biggest role model right now is Beyonce, just 'cause she is a very, very strong, powerful woman, and that's obviously the number one reason to be inspired by her. She is just killing every game there is to kill.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

I dye my eyelashes on occasion so I don't have to wear mascara. I find that mascara weighs on my eyes, making me sleepy, and it is a pain to take off.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.

I'm certainly not squeamish at all. The countryside makes you very aware of birth and death.

Hindered by asthma since I was six weeks old, I had begun experimenting with my diet and discovered a disquieting correlation. When I stopped eating the normal American diet of sugar, fats, alcohol, chemicals, and additives, I felt better. I could breathe freely. When I tried to sneak in a hamburger and a Coke, my body rebelled.

I'm 47, You learn life is short and it's not worth doing something if you don't enjoy it.

There is a power in God's gospel beyond all description.

The thing is, I haven't changed at all.

Though designed as a mere convenience, clothing sizes establish an unintended norm, an ideal from which deviations seem like flaws. There's nothing like a trip to the dressing room to convince a woman - fat, thin, or in between - that she's a freak.

It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

It's refreshing going from getting picked on in middle school to getting my name screamed out across the street.

Blessings happen more frequently when we take the time to notice them.

To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.