It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do and if you were inclined to be a writer that's a help.

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

'Tis education forms the common mind just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.

I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

Part of Obama's persona is self-reliance. He's calm he's cool he's self-possessed. In many ways he has tried to define himself in opposition to Clinton's sometimes needy often undisciplined emotionalism.

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.

Fact: The new '90210' is cooler than the old '90210.' It's the lithe streamlined Skipper to the elder series' venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents - they've been replaced by a hipster mom n' pop who get busted necking in the car.

Show business has been really really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined and there are campaigns and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Both my brothers became physicians and I of course wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

My wife a schoolteacher very disciplined. If you think I'm tough trust me and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It's hilarious. So we decided that I'm going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.