Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

I'd make you my favorite jungle gym if you'd let me.'- Katrina, 'Convicted

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.

When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

I do make myself be interested in places in a way that I don't make myself be interested in people.

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

When the Lord's white sheep become dirty gray, all black sheep feel more comfortable.

He who asks fortune-tellers the future unwittingly forfeits an inner intimation of coming events that is a thousand times more exact than anything they may say.

One word, in this place, respecting asparagus. The young shoots of this plant, boiled, are the most unexceptionable form of greens with which I am acquainted.