A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Maxim 4: Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.

It's good to be the king.

You want to win and you want the [NFL] ring. But when you win and you get the ring, you never really wear it.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

Salvador Dali and fifty cents will get you a cup of clock melt.