When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

You must change in order to survive.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.

The first and worst of all fraud is to cheat ones self. All sin is easy after that.

A crown if it hurts us is not worth wearing.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything except perhaps violence.

You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

I feel like Im a much better person when Im developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where Im just working on my analytical mind.

Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.

Blessed are the hairstylists for they bring out the beauty in others.

God watches over drunks and third baseman.

I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.

I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes and docile creatures. There is no payoff to getting the warm fuzzies in the presence of rats, snakes, mosquitoes, cockroaches, herpes simplex and the rabies virus.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it's the happiest time for me.

Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.