Whenever I'm asked what college I attended I'm tempted to reply Thornton Wilder'.

There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

As is the case with all original creators, Charles Chaplin's working life was an amalgam of arrogant self-confidence and deflating self-doubt.

The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.

In a professional once engaged, the performance of the job comes first.

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

In a professional once engaged the performance of the job comes first.

Amateurs hope. Professionals work.

...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

Embrace your past, but live for now.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

If our writing is worth anything at all, then we have to put ourselves into it.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Concentrate on your task.

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence

We celebrate [Easter] because now, thanks to the risen Lord, it is definitively established that reason is stronger than unreason, truth stronger than lies, love stronger than death.

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?