Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy.

Love everyone but love yourself the most.

Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.

I love 'Goodfellas' because it's a great movie - it's funny and there is action at perfect points. I just think Martin Scorsese makes everyone look really cool.

Why cling to the pain and the wrongs of yesterday? Why hold on to the very things that keep you from hope and love.

After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears."

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

I don't think about being sexy, being seductive. What you don't want to see is somebody trying to be sexy. That's the most unsexy thing.

O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.