No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life, from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.

Before proving it to someone else, I had to be able to prove it to myself.

You can't fault me for ensuring it's in working order... what if I hadn't used it and from this use it had fallen off?

Diligence is the mother of good luck and God gives all things to industry.

I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired.

Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.

There is no place where espionage is not possible.