Hugh Quotes

There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

It's this simple: If I never try anything, I never learn anything. If I never take a risk, I stay where I am.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.

In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

To a traveler paying his first visit, [San Francisco] has the interest of a new planet. It ignores the meteorological laws which govern the rest of the world.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.

I've nailed more women than I could count... at least I think they were women

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

I am a forward-looking person and live in the moment to build for the future.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me.

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.

We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself, taking risks on new behavior, trying new ways of 'being myself', so that I can see who it is I want to be.

I can't be found in myself; I discover myself in others. That much is clear. And I suspect that I also love and care for myself in others.

No matter what your past has been, your future is spotless.

True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.

Out of the long list of nature’s gifts to man, none is perhaps so utterly essential to human life as soil.

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

The fatal mistake is waiting for life's circumstances to be right before we begin. Simply begin with your heart, look deeply into it and trust what you feel. Practice knowing and you will know.

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin today to be the person you want to be.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

It is your right to be happy. This is what you were made for. And if you will not resist, happiness will find a way to pour from your heart and fill your days.