Do you prefer that you be right or happy?

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence.

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.

Circumstances will never determine your amount of happiness. Circumstances only highlight who you already are.

I want the shuffles and echoes, and a certain mysteriousness... It's so bloody hard to paint.

Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

The situation comes first...the characters...come next...[then] begin to narrate.

The oil and wine of merry meeting.

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.