All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

A great artist is never poor.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

You know you are truly alive when you're living among lions.

Coffee according to the women of Denmark is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb draperies of morning mist her mirage.

Our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story.

The cure for anything is salt water ? sweat, tears, or the sea.

The cure for anything is salt water sweat, tears, or the sea.

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.

Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry.

I will not ever run for political office. I can assure you.

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.

To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.

While Washington pays lip service to the challenges facing small businesses, it repeatedly chooses its own expansion over results. In effect, government has become a huge silent partner in all businesses, often taking a majority of the profits and forcing many unprofitable business decisions without the risk that it will be fired.

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

I'm a Fritos Burrito guy. Me and Taco Bell have a love relationship on Twitter; they follow me. Out of 16 people they follow me, so I'm very loyal to my girlfriend, Taco Bell.

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.

For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

The people that I was working with made it all good for me - made it important to me - made it special. I will miss everyone in the Steelers organization.

I always encourage our people and young business people that I meet to have a respect for cash, keeping some in their pockets and purses at all times. To me, that's essential.

Power tends to get confused with repression.

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

As long as the attitude is to only show the sheet metal, then automobile advertising will continue to be wretched.