How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.

God's got a lot of explaining to do. Of course, God never explains. When life breaks your heart, you're just supposed to pick up the pieces and start all over, I guess.

My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in the future.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to say about me, because it's not their profession to do that.

Independence of thought is a most valuable quality in a chess-player, both at the board and when preparing for a game.

If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.

If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

You don't find time to write. You make time. It's my job.

The only reason I wanted to get one [a star on Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame] was because Simon Cowell didn't have one.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.