I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

Patrick Rafter

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Johann von Goethe

The Angel that presided o'er my birth Said, Little creature, formed of joy and mirth, Go love without the help of any thing on earth.

William Blake

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

Marguerite Duras

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.

P. J. O'Rourke

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

Mahatma Gandhi

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

Don Winslow

You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.

Eva Longoria

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Khalil Gibran

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

Henry Louis Gates

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill