Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

You do right by me, I'll show you a life most suckers can't even dream of.

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

The whole thing's illusion, [Jacob], and there's nothing wrong with that. It's what people want from us. It's what they expect.

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Fidel Castro claimed that history would absolve him, but it can also condemn him.

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

I'm not complaining about doing 20-hour days. It's a joy to be able to work on yet another film.

The highest power is the human mind. That's where God came from and my belief in God is my belief in myself.

I walk a lot. It keeps me in shape and clears my head.

...but ready or not,life goes on.

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.