"My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy."

“Cynicism does not cause inaction..”

“It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.”

“The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.”

“You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television.”

Source : "Return of the Portable Curmudgeon" edited by Jon Winokur, (p. 290), 1995.

“I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

“Little changes over time are the secret to long term weight loss success!”

Source : "Get Fit for 2013: Chris Powell Answers 'GMA' Viewers' Questions". news.yahoo.com. January 4, 2013.

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”

“I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.96, Rutgers University Press