All creatures have a sense of territory - except children.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

How can we fully appreciate the redemption Jesus performed unless we fully understand from what we were redeemed?

I'd love to work with Aaron Sorkin on something. Just the way he writes, he has no fear in writing people that are fiercely intelligent, and I love that.

In the meantime, it just makes it a little harder to smile. But so does the world.

Never without a shilling in my purse.

I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen.

I did ask Larry David, "How did I get so lucky? How am I here Seinfeld?" He just said, 'Well, when you say your name over and over it just has a really strong rhythm: "Marisa Tomei. Marisa Tomei."

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.