None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

Dreams say what they mean but they dont say it in daytime language.

What I implore you to do is believe that if you make courageous choices and bet on yourself and put yourself out there that you will have an impact as a result of what you do, and you don't need to know now what that will be, or how that will happen, because nobody ever does.

What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

One of the main things I do is focus on ideas and what stories we decide to tell, but probably the biggest part of my job I'd say is working on the storyboards.

I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

The more that voting is glorified as a panacea, the more lackadaisical people become about preserving their constitutional rights.

It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, your personal fulfillment, and even your happiness. To have personal happiness as a stated goal doesn't detract from it if you get there.

In the radical Islamist jihad world, you're seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida.

Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I graduated from high school. I guarantee you I was the last guy to go through puberty in my class.

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

The model of Coca-Cola is local, whether it's investing, partnering, sourcing, producing, or selling. We market and distribute locally; we pay taxes locally. And it works.

It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies.

Hold me when I’m sad, kiss me when I cry, make me laugh when I’m down, and love me until I die.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.