Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Achievement is no hocus-pocus. It's focus, focus!

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

She could not complain about not having shoes when the person she was talking to had no legs.

Every day brings his bread with it.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

To find a script that works with provocative ideas is hard to find.

Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.