Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

This is part of what a family is about, not just love. It's knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame. Not work.

You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

Love wins, love always wins.

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like.

Without love we all like birds with broken wings.

Have you found someone to share your heart with? Are you giving to your community? Are you at peace with yourself? Are you trying to be as human as you can be?

Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?

Prayer ain't weakened by distance.

The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.

You must question everything. You have to always ask why, and if you do not understand the answer, you ask again.

Foreknowledge is power.

But I'll tell you this: When I lose my athleticism, it's time to go.

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

The fly in her argument is that when she says, 'they' will feel like lemons, we don't know who 'they' are. And 'they' might BE lemons.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.