Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.

Always roll up the sleeves on your shirt. It gives the impression that you're working, even if you're not.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.

I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.

Modeling is the best because you have to look hot, which comes easy to me, you know. I'm blessed with that.

Take a long pause ...breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

I've usually found that the greatest rewards in my life come from taking on things that are a little bit scary.

He hasn't earned your your mercy."Nessy replied, "Mercy isn't earned. It's given.

He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?

Why, they shot the wrong McKinley!

Writing is so hard. Why would you be a writer if you weren't really good at it? If you could be anything else, why would you be a writer?

She brings him hope in the way that angels do, taking him to heaven in ways he never knew.

Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.

It's when the thing itself is missing that you have to supply the word.

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.