A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

Never buy anything in a room with a chandelier.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

There is a time to provide advice and offer an opinion, and there is a time not to. Don't be too quick to offer unsolicited advice. It certainly will not endear you to people.

Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.

Love is just the key to everything.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

The life contest is primarily a competition for available energy.

If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

I want to buy Yoogeun a fire extinguisher.

Only the river is free, always changing but always the same.

When I let some girl take me in her mouth I think this is what Jesus must feel like during communion.