It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Why do early risers always take that self-righteous tone?

Myth is someone else's religion.

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

... one thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

People who are ready to learn are those who will be the best to lead.

Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.

Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

If you are serious about volleyball, the only months to stop playing are those without a vowel.

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power