Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles? [A Herring]

Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.

I sometimes think there is a dimension beyond the four of experience and Einstein: insight, that fifth dimension which promises to liberate us from bondage to the long, imperfect past

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.

I understand that SPEED is an indispensable quality but I discovered lately that WAITING also works most times with even better results.

Sometimes life decides that we must also take care of ourselves in other ways and love, the way we perceive it, must reflect only upon us.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

Love is the greatest of all the commandments-all others hang upon it. It is our focus as followers of the living Christ. It is the one trait that, if developed, will most improve our lives.

Abolish the Loyal League and the Ku Klux Klan; let us come together and stand together.

There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.