Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

What in the hell would they do with the farm program without us?

How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.

The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians.

Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?

Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?

We're the biggest food and agriculture company in the world.

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Mindfulness captures a quality of consciousness characterized by the clarity and vividness of present experience.

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

This isn't to play down people who pursue acting... For me, I do acting just as a fun job. It is a phenomenal job, and I have fun doing it, but I relate more to my martial arts, to my baseball, to my film study. There are more facets to my life that I relate to.

When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be a career-defining, genre-defining book, the first of over a dozen in the series, the first of over 70 published books, the first on my road to the best-seller list, the first on my road to being published in 15 countries.

The Gypsies taught me skills I had never imagined existed. Their observation skills for example were sharp and finely nuanced. They would size up a public context quickly and triumph over it before I had time to figure out what was going on.

I love my fans.

I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

It's my job to try and be as good a person as I can, and that's enough work for me.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift once we start. I'm humming stuff in the dressing room and smiling, looking at myself and making sure I don't have nose hair! But once I get really close to the stage, and the guys are doing the intro thing, I do get a pick-me-up.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

I always feel like the freshest boxer going into competitions.

It's my job as governor to set a vision.

The single dynamic that helps people be most aware of God and most experiencing the fruit of the Spirit is gratitude.

Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.'