I like animals who trust people.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Being kind is more important than being right.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

My heart has had love and lost love but it keeps on loving. That's just what hearts do.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.

As long as the house of The Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals the reputation of the church will remain in ruins.

For me and my storytelling and the way that I embrace stories in the way that I embrace characters, I desperately needed to know that everything was okay.