There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

I’m extremely willful to win, and I respond to challenges. Scoring titles and stuff like that… it sounds, well, I don’t care how it sounds – to me, scoring comes easy. It’s not a challenge to me to win the scoring title, because I know I can.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Good luck has its storms.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Stood off and on during the night, determining not to come to anchor till morning, fearing to meet with shoals; continued our course in the morning; and as the island was found to be six or seven leagues distant, and the tide was against us, it was noon when we arrived there.

What’s fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

My life is a struggle.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Beto’s copy of the Bill of Rights goes from one to three. Mine includes the Second Amendment. But there are a whole host of people here in Washington… they would be happy to confiscate America’s guns. And if you don’t believe that, then you probably also still believe in Bigfoot.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the ‚war on terror.‘ In contrast, Washington’s withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I love everything about my job, except being away from the kids.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.