In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

Your commitment to your happiness and well-being serves our entire world in powerful ways. Stay committed.You change our world for the better by changing your world for the better.

How do you explain to a nonreader that books aren't just things but treasured friends? Companions?

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Yes, but personally I was never a big acid head.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I love In-N-Out Burgers!

I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

Listening is not a skill; it is a discipline.

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.