Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

We as black people are not a monolithic bunch. We are not all the same, and neither are women. Instead, we are all individuals who have these extraordinary stories to tell and share with each other that will enrich all of our lives and help us all become more ourselves and better people.

If I read every comment on my YouTube videos, I'd go crazy with people that are saying negative things.

I'm a perfectionist to a default. I will drive you crazy sometimes. When I'm recording, I will try something a trillion times to get it right.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

There's a lot of learning that goes on based on the mistakes that we may make in practice, and our guys do a great job of trying to digest that information and be ready to go when we use it during the course of the game.

As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.

I'm not saying it was wrong to intervene in Kosovo.

Tequila is like Duck tape, it fixes damn nearly everything.

The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

Frustration is the wet nurse of violence.

The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.

I support anyone who supports what's in the Republican platform, which includes support for traditional marriage.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners.

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

I have never dreamed of being a princess. I have not longed for Prince Charming. I have and do long for something resembling a happily ever after. I am supposed to be above such flights of fantasy, but I am not. I am enamored of fairy tales.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

Business has to have a seat at the table. Infrastructure isn't going to be built properly if business doesn't have a seat at the table. A school is not going to happen if businesses don't work with schools about what kind of jobs they really need.

If I want to speculate wildly about the future, I have my science fiction. Anybody who tells you they can predict the future is either crazy or lying.