Although you may be old or sick, it's not too late to take stock and ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

You don't understand. You're not a wave. You're part of the ocean.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person I want to be?

It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people.

If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

Are we insane? The moment we awake, we shall acknowledged God as the Divine Being.

Live is a Dream If we want to see iT.

The corniest movie ever made about the white man's need to lose his identity and assuage racial, political, sexual and historical guilt.

I tend to think of fiction as being mainly about characters and human beings and inner experience, whereas essays can be much more expository and didactic and more about subjects or ideas.

America's relationship with Haiti has always been very complicated. I often say to people, "Before we came to America, America came to us in the form of the American occupation from 1915 to 1934."

Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

Donate to the extent that you don't have food for yourself after feeding the needy.

I will try to disappoint you better than anyone ever has.

Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.