If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.

My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.

It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

God created a system which gave us freewill.

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

Everything in man should halt in awe...Let all the world quake and let Heaven exult when Christ the Son of the living God is there on the altar.

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

Before a big acting competition, my dad sent me a note that said, 'Define the moment. Don't let the moment define you.'

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

We live in an anaesthetized society.