Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

Edmund Burke

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Abraham Verghese

Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.

Bruce Springsteen

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

Scott Snyder

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.

Francis Gray

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

Shawn Johnson

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

Paul Dirac

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

Rainer Maria Rilke

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love as deep; the more I give to thee,The more I have, for both are infinite.

William Shakespeare

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

Ivan Pavlov

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Will Durant