When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Dan Savage

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Susan Orlean

I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.

Ice Cube

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Emanuel Swedenborg

If it isn't your job to, perhaps it's your opportunity.

Anonymous

Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weather of mind got clarity new-found; now free, I once more weave together emotion, thought, and magic sound.

Aleksandr Pushkin

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.

Samuel Johnson

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work.

Claire Danes

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

Gregory Peck

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

Kevin James

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

Franz Grillparzer