I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

Pete Hamill

Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

William James Mayo

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

Mia Hamm

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

Frank Gehry

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

William Irwin Thompson

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten.

Buddy Rice

All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.

Robert McGee

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

Peter Lynch, "Modern Maturity Ma

Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.

Stephen Richards

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

Suffering occurs when we want other people to love us in the way we imagine we want to be loved, and not in the way that love should manifest itself--free and untrammeled, guiding us with its force and driving us on.

Paulo Coelho

In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts.

Jeff Bezos