I meditate, I do yoga and I have a lot of friends who are healers.....And if none of that works, I go by a chocolate bar and a bottle of cognac.

You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

Professionally I felt like a horse running in the wrong race.

I was willing to pay any price including subservience to secure this love, hoping that with each piece of myself I gave up he would be so pleased that he, too, would be transformed.

I celebrate life with holy thanks.

Make it a point to do something exciting. If not, your life will pass you by.

The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been.

With Charles Woods, it was the first time I had ever seen tissue from a dead person used to save a human life. It piqued my curiosity.

I try to walk around with a smile on my face.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.

We can't dwell upon another's ingratitude without using up our time and talents unprofitably.

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.