But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

I am not an intellectual. An intellectual is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso, whereas I just say 'pass the mustard'.

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened.

And when you get down to it, Lily, that is the only purpose grand enough for a human life. Not just to love but to persist in love.

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.

Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

I need to take a sacred pause, as if I were a sun warmed rock in the center of a rushing river.

It's very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that's only during the day.

We can decide to let our trials crush us, or we can convert them to new forces of good.

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.

We hold on to so much in our bodies. Yoga helps you let go of things, and it’s incredibly grounding.