They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

Kevin Costner

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

J. K. Rowling

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

Carl Sandburg

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Proverb

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

Leonardo da Vinci

Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

Earl Nightingale

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

P. J. O'Rourke

You just stood there screamingFearing no one was listening to youThey say the empty can rattles the mostThe sound of your own voice must soothe youHearing only what you want to hearAnd knowing only what you've heardYou, you're smothered in tragedyAnd you're out to save the world.

James Hetfield

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

George Eliot

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Halle Berry

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Woody Allen