Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Her own misery filled her heart—there was no room in it for other people's sorrow.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

You have to go for it. For the rest of us.

The unknown is scary. It’s unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.

I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

When you practice yoga, first your personality changes, the faith increases, then confidence improves

People still cheat on their wives, that hasn't fallen out of fashion. We all speak of it badly, but it has not fallen out of fashion.

I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

Cyberspace is where you are when you're on the telephone.