Appetite, craving for food, is a constant and powerful stimulator of the gastric glands.

Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

God forgives those who invent what they need.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

People change and forget to tell each other.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

To me, all success is a delightful surprise, since one can absolutely never predict it.

Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It's a general clean-out.

I always like to arrive at the airport early to enjoy breakfast and lounge about so that when I get on the plane all my travel fever has disappeared.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.

It is our family's hope that the true legacy and context of Malcolm X's life continues to be shared with people from all walks of life in a positive manner that helps promote the goals and ideals for which Malcolm X so passionately advocated.

My mother persevered through much adversity because she possessed faith in God, self-respect, and an awareness of history; most especially, she was astute in Africa's significant contribution to world history. Sister Betty refused to live her life as a victim.

I see people that have success, and I see how poised and polished they are and how they handle it. I wonder inside if they feel the same way that I feel.

Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

When it's time for me to walk away from something, I walk away from it. My mind, my body, my conscience tell me that enough is enough.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

I just recently joined Twitter. It's very positive - I love all the accolades. If my ego is hurting, I can just open my Twitter account and see 'Oh, I love you! I love the show!' and it's great. I'm trying to find the balance between trying to be funny, being honest and just being a promoter as the guy on 'Royal Pains.'

Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.

An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

I've dreamed landscapes for years, and my dreams play an enormous role in my work. In fact, when I first started doing landscapes I felt insecure about painting in this style, and the dreams were like positive omens for me, and I've done a few paintings that were exact replicas of images that came to me in dreams.

My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.