I have always preferred to keep things to myself rather than sharing them with anyone, but I am learning that if you let it go, you feel better for it. Don't keep it all bottled up inside; don't take it all on alone.
Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.
There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns.
The first-sale doctrine reflects basic common sense - and follows from the logic of treating copyrights and other 'intellectual property' with no more protection than regular property.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
We always want what we don't have, and I'd like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.
Men have died for this music. You can't get more serious than that.
Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.
Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself. And they taught me to think of myself as the average guy. Sometimes the average guy belongs in a role more than your matinee idol-type of person. We have to have people we can relate to.
The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.
If you'd asked me then if I saw how big 'The Steve Harvey Morning Show' was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.
No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.
Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
Evil report carries further than any applause.
I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.
I have never been more proud of the United States than I am this year. We have elected an African-American president. We have the stellar Michelle Obama setting the standard for American women. I simply cannot say it enough: look how far we've come.
Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.
I defy you to find any real will, any reasoning force, outside of life. And everything is there; there is, in the world, no other will than this force which impels everything to life, a life even broader and higher.
I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.
I love hitting the ball, controlling the ball. And yeah, even the roar of the crowd. I enjoy the roar of the crowd probably less than some players and more than some. But I'm not out here to be a celebrity.
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
At the end of your life, it's friendships, emotions and thoughts that you take with you, rather than what's in your bank account. So, even though people don't have a lot here, they are a lot richer in many ways and we can learn from that.
The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
