"Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires."

“Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.”

“I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.”

“If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

“I don't want to be too strict, because I think kids can get rebellious, but I want to raise my daughter to be passionate about doing good things and pursuing real things and hobbies instead of frivolous materialistic stuff.”

Source : "Holly Madison: Boyfriend Pasquale Rotella and I Are 'Wackos,' Have Pretend Conversations With Our Baby 'All the Time'". Us Weekly Interview, www.usmagazine.com. January 26, 2013.

“I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.”

“People don't actually, a lot of times, know the game behind the game. If people think that they do, it's a little bit of a naïve assessment of how the [writing] industry works.”

“So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.”

“When you're getting $2,000 a month in the minors, it's hard not to eat Taco Bell every day.”