I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.

My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

Bush's memoir is 512 pages. To be fair, 200 of those pages are just games and puzzles.

She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

Our people are good people; our people are kind people. Pray God some day kind people won't all be poor.

Ingratitude is often disproportionate to the benefaction received.

"I count a lot of things that there's no need to count," Cameron said. "Just because that's the way I am. But I count all the things that need to be counted."

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.