The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

There is nothing permanent except change.

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

The principal did not like the fact that the teachers would take my side. I always left an impression when I left the school - not for who I was but for what I did there.

That's what my music does for me. It makes people happy. When I play, I thank the Lord I've never seen someone walk away from a Dick Dale dance not having a good time. That's what it's all about.

Under Medicare right now, I get paid to put a pacemaker in you, but I don't get paid to counsel you about end-of-life care.

The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.

I was born in London in 1919. I first went to America in 1946 for a three-month holiday. Then I came back, worked here for almost a year sold up my home and went back on immigration in 1947.

To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

The detached observers view is one window on the world.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

I'm a workaholic. I would not pretend to be anything else. I rarely go to bed before one o'clock in the morning. I might kind of have a spa between half-past twelve and one and relax, and that's when I do my thinking, or my non-thinking. That's when I have a bit of space for myself.

What the nation's built on is discussion, contradiction and growth, and at the moment you can't discuss anything. If you do start to discuss it, you get criticized. If people hate us, you have to find out why and try to solve that problem.

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.

I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'

I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift; and every man should believe he is reborn each day.

I've loved being in legislative office on a state level, and I think on a federal level there are so many more opportunities. I'm so excited to accomplish more.

I don't want to sound disingenuous here - controversy is obviously good for business, especially if your business is satire. And it does amplify the discussion - in my view, a good thing.

I see all four presidential candidates, the leading four, Cruz and Trump and Sanders and Clinton, all oppose TPP.

There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.