I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

We still counted happiness and health and love and luck and beautiful children as "ordinary blessings.

When we talk about mortality we are talking about our children.

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective anti-anxiety agent yet known.

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Aging and its evidence remain life's most predictable events, yet they also remain matters we prefer to leave unmentioned, unexplored.

Medicine, I have reason since to notice more than once, remains an imperfect art.

I know what the fear is.The fear is not for what is lost.What is lost is already in the wall.What is lost is already behind the locked doors.The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Forget self pity, live life! Be the artist of your own life.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

The best way not to find the bed too cold is to go to bed colder than the bed is.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

I am inspiring and activating others to wake up to their unique selves to anchor the next stage of our unfoldment.

Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends.

To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.