Leo Tolstoy Quotes

The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

When I first joined the Secret Service in 1983, I was right out of college, having spent the last two or three years of my college experience working as a police officer for the city of Orlando, Florida.

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet.

I like to keep my wheels on the ground.

I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.

You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

It's easy: if you want to grow the economy, encourage job creation, and increase federal revenue, you support making bonus depreciation permanent. Permanency gives job creators the certainty they need to plan and invest in their businesses, including hiring employees.

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling.

Almost every day I wrap up my two-hour live broadcast and I say to myself as I'm driving home, 'I wish I would've done this' or 'We really should have gone live longer with this segment.'