I see myself as a storyteller. So, when I read something, I see the story, and I see it on screen, in my head, in a certain way. I always want to see it and see me in it.

You know me. It's my duty to please that booty.

Just 'cause you pour syrup on something doesnt make it pancakes

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

If you do not have courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of your other virtues.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'

I grew up in the South with guns everywhere and we never shot anyone. This [shooting] is about people who aren't taught the value of life.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

I don’t have home without him”, Carrie said when doctor asked her to go home.“I won’t give up on him. Do you hear me, Doctor? Don’t you give up on him!

Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

I am actually able to do other things. I'm not just this writer.

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

A belief is not true simply because it is useful.

Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The Dark Dark is a far slower project, clearly, and that's a relief. I look for slowness anywhere I can find it.