Never sacrifice your greatest dream for a casual wish.

Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.

So a lot of me is still a little kid, and I think that kind of helps alter my sense of reality - it makes me able to just become Belle every single night.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

Everything hurts until you become good at hurting everything around too.

It was strange even after suffering from fate, a person in love would choose the same fate over his life.

We ought to have more women in various management positions, because women are the ones who decide almost everything in the home.

Focus on your customers and make that restaurant synonymous to where you are in terms of area.

I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

I need to do SOMETHING to make ME feel better about ME.

Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.