I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Abraham Lincoln

Love of the streets is the love out of which I see deeply I love God, how near I come to the truth.

William Saroyan

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

Hunter S. Thompson

Empowerment is the magic wand that turns a frog into a prince. Never estimate the power of the people, through true empowerment great leaders are born.

Lama S. Bowen

You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

Neil Gaiman

For me the diamond dawns are set In rings of beauty, And all my ways are dewy wet With pleasant duty.

John Townsend Trowbridge

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.

Anna Held

There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet, of the last battle, of the last war.

General George Patton

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

Vladimir Nabokov

That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

Michael K. Simpson