"You can't grow a beard if you shave"

“When politeness is used to show up other people, it is reclassified as rudeness. Thus it is technically impossible to be too polite.”

“I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.”

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

“Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.”

“There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.”

“To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.”

“There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.”

Source : FaceBook post by Charlize Theron from Nov 25, 2013

“The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.”

Source : "POLITICO Q&A: Jim Sensenbrenner" by Lisa Lerer, www.politico.com. December 3, 2009.