Life

The most important thing in life is not what you are but what you have to offer.

When I was two and a half or three, my mom got a call from someone asking if wanted to go on an audition. I ended up getting the job; it was a commercial for Hasbro. It was my first audition and first commercial. I just had to smile and laugh and dance around.

I think I was lucky to be a little older when I became famous. But still, the shock of the world starting to treat you in a weird way... I had come from the army, where we had to deal with life or death, and suddenly, people were asking whether you were cool or not. I have never cared about whether I'm cool.

In my dreams, I heard your mellifluous voice. It slowly woke me up from a deep sleep so that I could enjoy the magnificence of life.

She thought he might have said her name, but it was background radiation accompanying the hum in her ears and the symphony in her head——a song of quantum mechanics and trajectory calculations and astroscience physics and where to go, where to go, where to….

Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

The Devil always takes back his own.

Sometimes my age is inappropriate for my behavior.

Virginia: Oh, you made it. Tony: I was going to say the same to you. I've been here quite a whileVirginia: Really?Tony: Yes, about an hour.Virginia: I didn't know it was a race.Tony: I didn't know that was a path.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.

Miriam Were has made outstanding contributions to public health in the developing world. She brings basic medical services to women and children in East Africa.

Moment by moment, in life's winter, life frozeEchoing a history of blues, a milestone roseFrom A Farewell A welcome.

When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .Prepare for survival.

Hope is the most exciting thing there is in life.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

Be who you are. Do what you can. Embrace the journey.

Every day, I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across this nation that have been neglected, ignored, and abandoned. I have visited the laid-off factory workers and the communities crushed by our horrible and unfair trade deals. These are the forgotten men and women of our country.

... Crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.