People with honorary awards are looked upon with disfavor. Would you let an honorary mechanic fix your brand-new Mercedes?

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

She doesn't quite chop his head off.She makes a Pez dispenser out of him.

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote

Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings

If you want to be successful, you have to surround yourself with successful people or successful minds

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

The first band I saw were Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders, in their brown mohair suits, in 1966.

Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

I'm uneasy with fame so I do my best to avoid places that will bring me more attention.