Mixing with groups of people can be enjoyed, it is pleasing in a way that cannot be explained other than the temptation to become closer to one or the other.

Try and live your life the way you wish other people would live theirs.

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.

If you think there is no time to write now, there would never be.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

To be a strong and empathetic person always requires us to trust that God will send angels to the people's heart we tried to reach, but couldn't.

Vanity is a motive of immense potency.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

The goal in any God-centered relationship should be to continually point the other person towards Christ, not continually draw attention towards you.

It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.