Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Sincerity: if you can fake it, you've got it made.

Murrow covered something because it needed coverage. He wasn't trying to get an audience just for the sake of it.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton--Parnell--never a man.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

A landlord is showing a couple around an apartment. The husband looks up and says, 'Wait a minute. This apartment doesn't have a ceiling.' The landlord answers, 'That's OK. The people upstairs don't walk around that much.'

Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.

In some ways, calm bodily protest has a nakedness to it that may be deeply embarrassing for observers; an act not unlike the bare-faced Oliver Twist effrontery that stands vulnerably before authority, asking for more or better.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

It's people's worst fantasy to see their partner kissing someone else, even though it's a job and it's not real.

Whenever you're dealing with something that's difficult to describe, that you can't get across to someone in a sound bite, it sounds like the normal default is to pick what's easiest, and in the case of fiction written by women, fiction involving women, fiction involving any sort of relationship, the word that comes to mind is 'romance.'

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

There are no more committed people on the planet than surfers. We fall down a lot. We turn around, paddle back out, and do it over and over again. Unlike anything else in life, the stoke of surfing is so high that the failures quickly fade from memory.

I wasn't expecting two seconds of me on the medal stand to go viral after the Olympics. I came back to my room after the medal ceremony, and my dad said this picture of me doing a face I don't even remember making is blowing up.

I only watched 'The Vampire Diaries' because my friends who loves vampires was like, 'Just watch it.' I was like, 'No, I don't want to watch 'Gossip Girls' with teeth.'

I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.

It's always the athlete's responsibility to keep everything in check. We have to listen to our bodies sometimes the hardest part is to back off and rest.

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.

I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

Hip-hop from the beginning has always been aspirational. It always broke that notion that an artist can't think about money as well. Just so long as you separate the two and you're not making music with business in mind. At some point, it has to be real when they touch it, when they listen to it. Something has to resonate with them that's real.

The 'Weston' is actually my middle name. I hyphenated it because I really wasn't willing to go out in the acting world as 'Tom Jones,' 'cause I'm Welsh as well, so the connotation is just ridiculous.