When I think of work, it's mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what's out there.

I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

Maurice Sendak

After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.

Henry Miller

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Michelle Obama

Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be.

Source Unknown

Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.

Sir Winston Churchill

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Mike Huckabee

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Walter Benjamin

If you have the same ideas as everybody else but have them one week earlier than everyone else then you will be hailed as a visionary. But if you have them five years earlier you will be named a lunatic.

Barry Jones

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Owen Wilson

I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning.

Little Richard

If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Leo Durocher