When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

It is no use to grumble and complain; It's just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain - Why, rain's my choice.

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

The most essential factor is persistence the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree — And so her love, beyond the reach of me

The most essential factor is persistence "the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.

I am honored to have heard from so many voters, supporters, and local elected officials who have been pleased with the work I have done on their behalf. They want and deserve a leader who will aggressively pursue strong conservative policies and get results. That's exactly what I have done.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.

I try to work out at the least 3 days a week, and I aim for 4 to 5 days a week. I try to eat healthy, but I'm not going to say I'm best the best at that. I won't allow myself to buy junk food, but if it's somewhere and it's free, I'll eat it.

I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.

In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

All weddings, except those with shotguns in evidence, are wonderful.

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see something to hear. In fact try as we may to make a silence we cannot.

Divorce is like an amputation. Sometimes its necessary but it should be avoided if at all possible because it brings about a permanent disability.

I'm too sensitive and too sincere.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.

I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

The essence of spirituality is the duty to live to its full the glorious destiny of being human. The purpose of religion should be to empower all people in this adventure of living with dignity and fulfillment.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.

I found out a long time ago that if I didn't have a good story for a song, I could just make one up! Now it seems over half the stories in my show are made up. The funny thing is, those seem to be the ones that resonate the most with the audiences.