Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Наша жизнь такова, какой ее делают наши мысли.

A strong desire to learn something is already 50% of success.

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 worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

When you're starting out, you know, you have to do something on a very limited budget. You're not going to be able to have great actors, and you're most likely not going to have a great script.

Beaver do better work than the Corps of Engineers.

I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.

I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting to me, what brings guys together? The bonding. 'Old School' is a good example of that. And even 'Starsky' and even 'Road Trip.'

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

Flowers dont worry about how theyre going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

I find my vocabulary is quite a lot better when I'm hungover. I feel like I unlock a key of words that I don't usually use in day-to-day life.

When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

Washington agencies are now trying a backdoor approach to regulate our climate by abusing existing laws.

It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even with the short story. I will just be writing bits and pieces, and then when I have all the pieces on the table, that for me is when it feels like the real work begins.