I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

Ernest Hemingway

A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Wade Boggs

There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.

Arthur Ashe

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

Fred Upton

My son is a blessing in every way.

Elizabeth Emken

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

Dean Koontz

There is no friend as loyal as a book

Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.

Gustav Klimt

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Francis Bacon

I adore adverbs they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Henry James

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

Arthur Miller

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.

William Jennings Bryan