When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

When in doubt do something.

Good dreams don't come cheap, you've got to pay for them and If you just dream when you're asleep this is no way for them to come alive... to survive.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away.

I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

I've got nothing against selling out, but just let me do it for something that matters. Not so I can be Number One With a Bullet, as it were, but so I can leave this world feeling like I made a difference.

The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.

When in doubt, do something.

I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I understand welfare because I lived it. I understand the difference between a want and a need. The Republican Party promised to bring welfare change. We must deliver on this promise.

Yes, I can play. I can play. I can't play as long as I did and as hard, but I don't think I have to.

The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.

No matter how solid or structured or set you think you are, there is, you know, a very thin line keeping us all from sort of chaos, in some perspective.

When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm very casual.

My first job was at a Chicago night club called Mr. Kelly's.

The quickest way to learn about a new place is to know what it dreams of.

If you love a man, immediately you will reduce your intake of food - it's automatic.

Time not only heals, time reveals.

No, you're not perfect. And that's exactly how it should be.

I mean, journalism is very detailed... you try to get down in the weeds and sort out exactly what happened. And I don't think that a feature film is really a place where that happens.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

If fear grows fat on the energy you feed it, you have to talk it down.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

I was a super tomboy growing up.

Pressure is not necessarily bad. Pressure can make you produce. The challenge of pressure is learning how to handle it--which requires developing internal confidence and inner strength.

A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.