Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

If you decide to do anything and follow throughwith actions with the same intensity as your decision, you willdefinitely end up with an excellent result.

Can I wear your blazer?

If I'd thought, "I can't really play this instrument," I wouldn't have done it! But I didn't care, you know. I didn't care!

I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.

Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.

When your movie is hot, your options are crazy.

I think people who live in the worlds that movies are based on end up disliking them. Unless they're from a different time and era.

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

I gave my heart to Jesus. I accepted him as my Lord and Savior, started reading the Bible, started going to a church (and) started a relationship with Jesus.