Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

Joe Paterno

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

Bob Marley

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

Paul Thomas Anderson

There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe.... The soul of the world is nourished by people's happiness.

Paulo Coelho

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

John C. Maxwell

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

W. H. Davies

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andrew Young

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Friedrich Schiller

The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

J. D. Hayworth

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex.

Mahatma Gandhi