Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Part of waging war is knowing when you’re outgunned.

I tossed a stone into the Sea To see what it would do for me And the ripples went out And became ocean waves To return to the Sea inside of me

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

When women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them

This is the province that pioneered dreaming big.