This indeed is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done yet without control of that passion its effects are largely ill or null.

The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.

The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work familynever forgetting where we came from.

I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.

The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

May the Force be with you.

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

In my experience, there's no such thing as luck.

Always remember, your focus determines your reality.

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

While falling in love is fun, it's not everything, and it's not the antidote to an unfulfilled life, despite what Reese Witherspoon movies may tell you.

Some girls are intimidated by my height, obviously. But a lot of girls do like it, so that's cool.

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.