A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me.

Tailoring your clothes makes all the difference.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

In conflict, straightforward actions generally lead to engagement, surprising actions generally lead to victory.