No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done with out it.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.

I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

I've always tended to play people who relish playing against the rules.

I think when the people in Burma stop thinking about whether or not they're free, it'll mean that they're free.

I want to do work, but I also want to have a good time.

Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.

Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.

I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.

You will never have to force something that’s meant to be.

The real point is that totalitarian regimes have claimed jurisdiction over the whole person, and the whole society, and they don't at all believe that we should give unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.

I always was fascinated with China, because I was born in Europe, and for us, China had this fascination and mystery. The first time I came here was in 1989. They were on bicycles, and the speed of the growth has been incredible.

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, people have an emotional response to ice cream; it's more than just food. So I think when you combine caring, and eating wonderful food, it's a very powerful combination.

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.

The closer I get to retirement, the more I feel it will be a huge change, a shock, because athletics has been the core of my whole life. I know I'll miss the feeling of running fast, the adrenaline rush, and hearing the crowd cheering me on.

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.' Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers.

New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.