I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.

You don't have to belittle others in order to feel important in life. We are all special in the eyes of God. So be proud of your positive inner-self.

Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets - unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel. Then, it's pretty easy, just tune in for a few minutes.

I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.

Wars have always started over religion

[John McCain] didn't believe me. I think anybody who's been in a POW camp for five years can - take eight minutes on The Daily Show.

Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser & stronger for the trials that you have been through.

Love is the undisturbed balance that binds this universe together.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.