There is only one option in Iraq: that we win.

We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

Passenger rail development takes time, but good things come to those who are patient and stay the course.

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1, 800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.

Difficult economic times, often spur great periods of creativity and invention.

There are writers who draw immediate attention to the fact that it's fiction. And I like some of that, but it doesn't really have the power.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

Kids, man. They'll be the ones to take mountain biking to the next level for us. You just watch

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.

It's painful, man, for my daughters to say they're scared of me.