In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
They are very healthy. Yes, they were sucking and breathing on their own and everything when they came out. So there was no need to stay in the hospital. So we took them home the next day.
When I'm not acting, I like to go home and be really normal. So I usually grow out my hair until I get the next part.
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.
If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.
I've been completely fascinated with history because it tells everything about what's going to happen next because it's cyclical, everything repeats in general.
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.
I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.
But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next?
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.
We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.