Did you ever reach a point in your life, where you say to yourself, 'This is the best I'm ever going to look, the best I'm ever going to feel, the best I'm ever going to do,' and it ain't that great?

Change is such hard work.

My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

The secret of happiness is love and secret of love is nonjudgmental care.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.

To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.

I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

The realization that he is white in a black country, and respected for it, is the turning point in the expatriate's career. He can either forget it, or capitalize on it. Most choose the latter.

I think the worst thing is stereotyping.

I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible.