Do not pass by the oasis without stopping to drink.

If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything.

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.

Family’s the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that’s where the spine and heart come in.

Businesses grow when they are well loved!

When we focus our thoughts on something, we resonate with it. When that resonance is constant and directed, we draw it to us.

Dont look for something that isn't there, because you're never going to find it

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

[A conductor's] happiness does not come from only his own story and his joy of the music. The joy is about enabling other people's stories to be heard at the same time.

I don't know karate, but I know crazy.

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.