To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

Live, love and enjoy the present moment. This moment is the pearl of your precious life.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

The way this country deals with drugs is just not funny. What a waste of everyone's time and effort. What a waste of a lot of people's lives.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

So she searches for light, only to realize it's in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.

The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.