If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?

The trouble with you people is that you don't laugh enough.

Despair is a free man—hope isa slave.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.

I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes.

Everything is as real as nothing, whatever way the nothing itself is defined.

When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

We can't start dividing people up into categories. In the past, France has often committed the error of not speaking to everybody because there was a belief that some countries could be neglected.

Organize one's values in the order of their worth

Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.

I was never the ingenue or the pretty girlfriend of Tom Cruise in a movie. I didn't have that career, so I don't have to compete on that level.

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.