Death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

...nothing ever as much as begun, nothing ever but nothing and never, nothing ever but lifeless words.

Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

Besides if people really want to support the troops they would vote democrat.

Raisins are a thing that lasts, they come in small boxes, and you always feel like eating raisins, even at six in the morning. A raisin is always an appropriate snack.

You might be a redneck if every electrical outlet in your house is a fire hazard.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

Do it, do it, do it. And watch good actors. See what they are doing and how they are doing it. You have to practically participate, I think, in order to develop yourself.

There is no college for the conscience.

I never want to be winking at the audience and saying, "This character is really a nice guy."

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.