I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

A bar of iron costs $5, made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is $3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000. Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of yourself.

Source Unknown

Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.

Steve Maraboli

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

Charles Bukowski

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Marcus Valerius Martial

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

David Mamet

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

Melissa Leo

The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

John Hospers

To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Idris Elba

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Billie Joe Armstrong

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

Reba McEntire