Enlightenment is just the beginning, later on come other skills . . . patience, a forgiving nature, extreme attention . . . .

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

I'm an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.

People will typically be more enthusiastic where they feel a sense of belonging and see themselves as part of a community than they will in a workplace in which each person is left to his own devices

Always wear a smile because you never know who is watching.

Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago.

It's nice to just do my hobby and be able to live.

My doctor said I had OCD. I couldn't believe it. I had to call him nine times to make sure.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

I've met a few people in my time who were enthusiastic about hard work. And it was just my luck that all of them happened to be men I was working for at the time.

Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?""Is that including, or not including you?

Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent, /the love misplaced, /has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

One negative thought is the first step to failure.

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

The moon had the old moon in her arms.

I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.

Ignorance is not a suitable defense

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

Film is a truly magical medium. You can create illusions of reality, make people think they've seen things that they really haven't - like blowing a guy's head off with a shotgun.