"Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love."

“We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.”

“But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.”

“Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.”

Source : Gish Jen (2014). “Typical American”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“A man who cannot command his temper should not think of being a man in business.”

“I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say I am and that's not up for debate.”

“Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?”

“Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.”

“The reason that so many of us cannot save money is because of our friends. They're always buying something we can't afford.”