Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

But how can one be warm alone?

There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield

we will always be with u. we internalize traits we observe in others as a way to honor and remeber them. we are all living memorials

Streams may spring from one source, and yet some be clear and some be foul.

I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead.

choose to feel happy about whatever the situation is, knowing it will ultimately be to our benefit.

The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.

It's not that I'm broken, and it isn't that I bleed. But when you pulled the stars from the heavens, it got so hard to see.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

I pretty much always feel gratitude. I thank God throughout the day.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.