But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

I don't like the idea of busing children all over the country. It's not safe. And there doesn't seem to be that much of an urgent need for it to be done.

Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.

Some of these bulls are gonna' spin those cowboys so fast, they'll look like a frog in a blender.

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

And we created you in pairs.

I need to find those projects more often: the ones that really, really speak to me. I do better work in those situations and have a better time.

A wacky, trendy outfit on a guy over 40 indicates he's got big issues.

We should have a very limited federal government.

When you're doing a movie, your body doesn't allow you to get sick until you finish.

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.

When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit - the pleasure of simply being.

People downloading my stories from the bit torrent sites were never going to buy them anyway. It's no money out of my pocket.

And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.

I believe in persevering. If you persevere, success lies ahead of you.

The hardest achievement in acting - in my opinion, anyway - is nailing a role that absolutely nobody else could have played. Pacino owned Michael Corleone... but DeNiro could have owned it as well. Who else, though, but Val Kilmer could have nailed Jim Morrison? Does anyone besides Will Ferrell pull off Ron Burgundy?

Biscuits are sweet things in Britain, and apparently in America a biscuit is something like a scone, something savory that you'd have with soup.

I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing penniless with no skills. Men in their 30s and early 40s, old for boxing, young in life, but also old in the job market if you're just getting started with no education. These guys need someone in their corner.

It never gets old watching someone receive their first pair of glasses and regain their vision and their life.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.

People who come to 'The Country House' are like, 'You're on 'The Good Wife' now.' But I've been on since the second season! I feel that the interest in the children in that series is almost tangential.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.