I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.

William Shakespeare

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

James Thurber

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

Kevin Spacey

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

Jack Canfield

Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines.

Dag Hammarskjold

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

Francis Bacon

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Michael Fassbender

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Christopher Morley

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Lindsay Lohan

I always thought Detritus would be good at: I bet you're wondrin' how many time I fired dis crossbow--

Terry Pratchett

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Tony Parsons

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Thomas Jefferson