Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Asking is the first level of prayer.

Your true freedom is making your own decisions.

And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in the places by the Gray's Inn Road will never find these secrets elsewhere.

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.

Frankfurt, discussing a stuntman: He missed being killed in that shot be literally half an inch.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Old age is a strange country, and most of us enter it unwillingly.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.