Leo Tolstoy Quotes

My manager came up with the name 'State of the Industry,' and it was just one of those things. It just took off. Well, I don't know about 'took off.' I'm not in the stratosphere.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

I look for the safety of my child. I don't really care about me.

Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.

If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. I believe everything happens for a reason. If you are strong from within, you can will anything. I'm a firm believer that where there's a will, there's a way.

I recognize I have faults. I'm accountable for them, and I try to do what I can to correct them. I will say that it's unfortunate that everything I do is scrutinized to the point that it is. Frankly, I don't watch the news, I stay away from political conversations.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God's world.

There's this sort of male energy that we have that can seem very destructive. But it doesn't have to be. It actually can be a very positive force.

The true test of whether Mr. Obama has improved on the Bush era lies in how his administration justifies its decisions on the 241 remaining Guantanamo detainees, whose cases will now be evaluated internally and reviewed by the courts.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Honest labor bears a lovely face.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.