Writing is EASY: All you do is sit STARING at a blank sheet of paper until drops of BLOOD FORM on your forehead.

Persistent in LIFE? I think, YES, I am. I'm GOING to do SOMETHING until I GET it right.

The BACKBONE of any IMPROVEMENT of governance, its development as WELL as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new ADMINISTRATIVE technologies.

We need to keep in MIND the well-established FACT that the full effects of monetary policy are felt only after LONG lags. This means that policy MAKERS cannot wait until they have achieved their objectives to begin adjusting policy.

We're all with Friends until Friends dies. If one of us GOES, we all go. One of us wouldn't LEAVE. It wouldn't be the SHOW it is WITHOUT each of us.

A MAN is not old until regrets TAKE the place of DREAMS.

A man can fail many TIMES, but he isn't a failure until he BEGINS to blame SOMEBODY else.

In ANCIENT African cultures, a young man was not considered a full MEMBER of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't MARRY and he couldn't own land until he had killed a LION. It was symbolic.

During my years as a practicing lawyer, it just was PART of your study of what Congress was trying to say in their statutes. I NEVER really considered judges or scholars as either those who used legislative history or those who were OPPOSED to it until after I got on the COURT.

I'm not STRIVING for HAPPINESS, I'm trying to GET some work done. And SOMETIMES the best work is done under DOUBT. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

I think every girl needs to LOVE herself, REGARDLESS of ANYTHING. LIKE if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself FIRST.

As we CONTINUE to learn how to LIVE with COVID-19 until a vaccine is available, we'll ALSO learn how to carefully balance not only the health of Iowans but the health of our ECONOMY.

I cultivated this fan base that I REALLY didn't really understand or APPRECIATE until I put my first headlining TOUR up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never DONE a tour before!

A MAN doesn't KNOW what he KNOWS until he knows what he doesn't know.