I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

We shot 'Breaking Bad' on film; we capture 'Better Call Saul' digitally. In the shooting of 'Breaking Bad,' we would have this steady, handheld, cinema verite sort of look, so we purposely went the opposite way with 'Better Call Saul' - locked in the cameras and made the movements smoother and more mechanical.

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

You can't go into something good until you let go of all the bad stuff because you'll find yourself steady bringing up all the old in a new situation.

I have always believed in the slow and steady journey, a long journey.

I would like to be out there every day and be that one steady guy that everybody can lean on.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.