My brother is my best friend.

Being one point ahead at the end - that's all that matters.

Life is a flow of changes—transient and ephemeral.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

I think the biggest problem is parents are so concerned with being friends with their kids. You're not their friend. You're their parent.

Still when it comes to finding fault we are fonder of windows than of mirrors.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar.

I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.

A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.

I can certainly be part of the socialite group and walk those carpets every day, but I choose not to because I prefer to be grounded. You can't be at home and on the red carpet.

The secret of charm is bullshit.