There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

I really don't understand the idea of a celebrity stylist. Is it a real job? I know there's unemployment, but frankly the railways need to be fixed, too.

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

But the same things that had once attracted menow left me with a mild sense of unease. Ivy would say I was getting smarter, but I just felt…empty.

If you're good to your staff when things are going well, they'll rally when times go bad.

It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.