I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

The Joan Crawford that I've heard about in 'Mommie Dearest' is not the Joan Crawford I knew back when.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

It is not the truth that people cannot handle. It is the consequences that stem from that truth.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

Presence is needed to become aware of the Beauty, the Majesty, the Sacredness of Nature

Just as the great ocean has one taste, the taste of salt, so also this teaching and discipline has one taste, the taste of liberation.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

I'm pretty much game for anything.

I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae.