The only way you're going to get something to last in this world is to work at it

Life is spectacular. Forget the dark things. Take a drink and let time wash them away to where ever time washes away to.

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

Beauty’s all around me right here. It’s not in a textbook. It’s not in an equation. I mean, take the sunlight … The colors flow into your lungs, into your bloodstream. You are the colors.

Our whole society's a training ground for addicts.

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.

Have you ever started to wave at someone and then realized they weren’t really waving at you, so you abort and go for a head scratch instead? That’s how I felt.

Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count.

When life puts you in tough situations, don’t say “why me”, say “try me

And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be safely mentioned under cover of a joke.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.

Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

I'm a human being with a conscience, and when I see murder, I cannot stand by, and I have to call the murdered the murdered, and I have to call the murderers the murderers.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right.