If you work hard and play by the rules, you'll have a better life than your parents did, and your children will have a better life than you did.

The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

You just have to re-wire your brain when you’re shifting from the stage to the screen, or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.

At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244]

As food is to the body, so is The Word to the Spirit of a disciple

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

her scruffy innoscense to impregnate with his dreams. reason was seductive, it gave the appearance of truth

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

What's the matter Jaimy? Ain't-cha never seen a girl before? -Jacky Faber

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

I've always been inspired by a lot of work coming out of the UK