To believe that there is no God takes infinitely more faith than to believe God exists, because all the evidence must be ignored. Atheism is the epitome of blind faith.

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

It ain't bragging if you can do it.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

People around the world, they want the authentic Starbucks experience.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

Action must be taken at once, there is no time to be lost.

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.