Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

Success is three parts hard work and one part serendipity

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.

The Wizard of Oz' is my favorite movie. It was the first movie I can ever remember watching.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

And so, while perhaps not all God's chilluns got wings, enough have for each of us to hope that we may be among those that have.

You're not living if you don't go out and try things for yourself.

If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.

We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.