I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much.

There are only two reasons why you leave someone you're still in love with - either it's the right thing to do, or it's the only thing to do.

Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe.

Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside.

Stop writing what you know and start writing what you want to know.

Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.

Broken love is the most dangerous love. It will slice you open with every touch.

Often, we only dream of something but do not fulfill our purpose and that is because we do not know how to go from dream to its fulfilment

When you gain higher consciousness, your consciousness becomes universal and you become ageless, endless, and universal.

Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

I'm enjoying simplifying things.

I defended this country as a young man, and I will defend it as president.

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men.

When you see the body outside of a costume and see the strength that it takes, people would look at dance a different way and see how athletic it is. You're not just born like that.

I'll be working the rest of my life because I'm a character actor and don't have to worry about box office.