A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

It's okay to say what you want to do.

Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Build thee more stately mansions.

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.

The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.

Happiness is a big joke; let us laugh at it loud.

Charm is a product of the unexpected.

I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

I can turn on the radio right now and be inspired.

You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.

At the end of the day, I'm very lucky to have what I have and do what I do, but I don't see myself as any different from anyone else who works hard and is a dad and a husband.

As Asian-Americans, we just don't often get the chance to tell the story from a leading person's perspective. And so I took jobs where they came, and they were always in the ensemble, and if it required me to play multiple instruments I did that, and if it was as a puppeteer, I did that. That's just how I was cast; that's how I was employed.

Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us.

An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand till he is all gone.

I'm really not the party type. I more like to have friends over at the house and chill. I've never been the super party type. But for the 18th birthday, you got to party. And then 21 is going to be even bigger.

I'm the sort of person who, once I put dragons into the real world, feels obliged to think about how their presence would have changed history.

Emotional power is maybe the most valuable thing that an actor can have.

When I get onstage in a play, I feel very safe, very protected, very fulfilled.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

People laugh at me because I don't even know what I'm doing tomorrow.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.