In the journey of success, the only person that has to believe in your dreams is nobody else but yourself.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

Loneliness why do you accompany me if I wish to be alone?

Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.

When I heard him speak at the DNC [in 2004] I started supporting him. Then I endorsed him on the anniversary of my father's assassination this year. So I am a diehard [Barack] Obama supporter.

I grew up among farmers in Illinois and so you always have to have the tools you might need in the eventuality of a flat tire or a broken window.

I like doing Zumba. I only do it like, once a week. If I did it more often, I would be very skinny.