Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.

Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait.

You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

When you love someone you gotta trust them, there's no other way. You gotta give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point?

I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of.

If you don't go, you'll never know.

You'll have time to rest when you're dead.

You don't need words to express feelings.

Passion should always trump common sense.

I go to Paris, I go to London, I go to Rome, and I always say, 'There's no place like New York. It's the most exciting city in the world now. That's the way it is. That's it.'

Your roots aren't to be found in your childhood so much as in your child. It's he who provides your link to the world, and home is wherever he is.

But that’s the paradox of expectations

The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.

You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.

Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

I am still there, at that distant place in time, I never left it, but live expanded in the past, or out of it.

This is the body you've been given - love what you've got.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.