The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

If you cannot change, why you expect others to change?

Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Don't be afraid of making decisions.

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

I have long been in favor of states and cities within states making up their own minds whether or not they want to permit fracking. I have been supportive of that.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

True wit never made us laugh.

I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.