The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Smiles are the language of love.

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity— a virtuous woman. Anything, Devil, but that.

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

Military life is hard, even cruel—especially for the kids.

One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

My biggest addictions have been chocolate cake, mashed potatoes, and butter sandwiches.

One day I received a call from my agent, he asked me to put myself on tape for a film that was being cast in LA. I was thrilled at the possibility alone.

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.