Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

What do you think this is, a f****** tea party? No you can't have a f****** glass of water, you can f****** wait like the rest of us.

Pretend and it will be true.

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.

Retirement: a time to become much more than you have ever been.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

The best formula for revenge is success.

Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in Excalibur. That was the first thing I said to her. "I loved you as Morgan Le Fay."

A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.

Some persons follow the dictates of their conscience only in the same sense in which a coachman may be said to follow the horses he is driving.