The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary.

You must discipline yourself consistently to do what others do occasionally in order to have the future few will get to experience.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!

My mom was amazing. She believed in me and we were best friends.

A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original.

We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.

A great actor is simply just seeing him or herself, and reacting to what exists around them.

The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.