Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

One of the very first things I will do is to order a thorough review of our cyberdefenses and weaknesses.

If anyone asks me about the George Martin years I usually say I group all of that stuff together as the single greatest experience but I wasn't scared I was just really looking forward to it.

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.

First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.

I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.