He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

The scandal's so unbelievable that I cannot repeat it here.

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight.

I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else.

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

A friend of ours has a hobby doing genealogy, and we found out that we were cousins in the ninth degree, that we had a common ancestor on the Mayflower.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair even though they both lead to the same destination.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

The cello is a hero because of its register its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument whereas the violin is feminine because of its soprano pitch. When the cello enters in the Dvorak Concerto it is like a great orator.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

My retirement date, every time you ask me that, I'm going to say five years. I don't want to retire.

To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past when you make the past your jailer you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself let the burden go and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility.

What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we've unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.

My paintings are rubbish.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I've worn down America.

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.

Without a doubt in my mind, I should be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. You look at my stats without my USFL stats, and I don't know how you can argue with that. Look at my combined yards. I'm not one to make excuses, so I'll play by their rules and not even count the USFL stats.