Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

Roast beef medium is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

The goats business is none of the sheeps concern.

Christmas isnt a season. Its a feeling.

Houseworks the hardest work in the world. Thats why men wont do it.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

I used to spray tan a lot when I was a teenager. The last time I got spray-tanned was for the Golden Globes. And I was like, 'I love spray-tanning so much.' I still really like it. But it definitely makes me look like I have leprosy, after a point.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.

Love is like a drug; it's addicting and can kill even the strongest.

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

I'm up for re-election in 2014, and yes I do plan to run for re-election.

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role.

I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.

Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.

It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion

When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.

I like to be sort of grounded with Fish. But, at the same time, I think probably what's unique about us is the way other dynamics happen, where I'll play off Trey for awhile. When we start playing a jam, I don't usually know what's going to happen, I don't have a plan.

Marriage is a lot of things - a source of love, security, the joy of children, but it's also an interpersonal battlefield, and it's not hard to see why: Take two disparate people, toss them together in often-confined quarters, add the stresses of money and kids - now lather, rinse, repeat for the rest of your natural life. What could go wrong?

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

There are many ways you can make money. Certain ways will make you happy, certain other ways will make other people happy. But if you go in because there's money in there, you're bound to fail, bound to fail!

The artist who gave me the most inspiration and direction, especially as a singer - and I absolutely consider myself a singer, 100 percent - is Nina Simone. She's my ultimate pianist-singer-type person.

I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.