The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain, you must either be a god or a corpse.

What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.

Further editing deepens a story.

...CompuServe, and it was not sophisticated, guys. It was the cave painting equivalent to Tumblr.

The Labour Party is being led by a woman but she has not been elected to anything. She is the lady who makes the breakfast in the Kinnock household.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

Being president isn't anything like reality TV.

My dream of course, as a writer and a person who's an entertainer, is: Grow up to be Mindy Kaling, don't grow up to be Mindy Lahiri.

The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there's much, much more I can do.

True success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.