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

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.

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

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts.

... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Lord, I thank you for answering my prayers at the right time.

Be great, read great books.

In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

I took action as governor to preserve the sanctity of life.

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.