The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.
I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.
I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.
Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!
The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.
The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.
I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.
One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.
Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.
I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.