A strong desire to learn something is already 50% of success. — Сильное желание чему-то научиться - это уже 50% успеха.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Critisize - the right way to make enemies.

No tomorrow. The day of man’s salvation is today.

Fear does not exist anywhere else except in your mind.

A smile is worth nothing, but it is valued dearly...

I like to windsurf and ski, and most of all I love to ride horses. The wilder and faster the better! If I'm presented with a fast horse or a fast boat, I still get that shiver of excitement and I cannot resist. Luckily I never seem to have any accidents, and thank God for that.

I do believe in an afterlife. I try to be at one with people and try to love life as much as I can.

Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it.

Sarcasm was usually lost on imbeciles.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.

I'm constantly on the go and have found rushing round after a new born baby is the best form of exercise! I always remind myself that men appreciate a womanly shape and some curves!

I don't think you should be allowed to eat in a restaurant if you haven't waited tables at least once. It's so irritating when I see people being rude to waiters, like, it makes me want to slit their throats! Like, really? You're really this inconsiderate?

I am vibrant.

Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal.

The people of Kentucky have had enough. They have had enough of bailouts for Wall Street banks.

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

The Cherokee used to fear that taking a photo would make them lose their souls. Over exposure and desensitization is pretty close to losing ones soul. So they were right to quite an extent.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about.

Clutter causes stress and clutter is one of the main barriers of productivity.

Children will go with any story as long as it's good, but white adults sometimes think that if a black child's on the cover, it is perhaps not for them.