"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."

“For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.”

“I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.”

“Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.”

Source : "Howard Gordon tells Class of 2013: ‘Work hard and be nice’". www.conncoll.edu. May 19, 2013.

“People always ask me, how do you do everything you do?”

“He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and nobility that decorate this world.”

“The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.”

“The deepest rivers make least din.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 707-10, Aurora (1604), Song, 1922.

“Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.”