Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?

Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

We've turned into a whining society.

The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

Q: Why do you like chocolate so much? A: The answer, clearly, is because I've tasted chocolate.