Aside from God, you are your best helping hand. God has already blessed you with the ability to always strive and thrive. Try not to disappoint yourself.

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

It occurred to me that I just didn't see how I could go ahead and continue to eat meat. It just seemed so... cannibalistic to me. And so, I'm a vegetarian, and I have been ever since.

I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.

If you don't know how to look, you'll end up putting down the wrong things, which only dilutes or cancels the power of your artwork.

I think the big news there - most post-menopausal women I know are not celibate.

Not letting the world destroy you. That’s a daily battle.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.