Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

They never taste who always drink: They always talk, who never think.

The ends must justify the means.

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.

They talk most who have the least to say.

For hope is but a dream for those that wake.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

His noble negligences teach, what others' toils despair to reach.

I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

The rocket had worked perfectly, and all I had to do was survive the reentry forces. You do it all, in a flight like that, in a rather short period of time, just 16 minutes as a matter of fact.

I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

I crack jokes all the time. Even when I have a fight, I will make a joke, and people will laugh.

I was short with my fastball and breaking ball.

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.

I want to be a loving mom.

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.

If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.

Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

I don't trust what this life has given me.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

What's great about working with EPIX is that we have unparalleled access to the top movie talent and do exclusive 1:1 sit-down interviews with the actors, sometimes before anyone else does. With 'The Hunger Games,' we had our own studio set up and did 1:1s with Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Lenny Kravitz, etc.

People are incorrigibly themselves.

Nancy is superstitious.

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.

The parts I've been most successful in are the ones I've desperately, desperately wanted.

I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.

I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.