Friendships offer good practice in accepting the transience of experience and the persistence of feeling.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.

This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

That’s going to be your trouble — judgment about yourself.(Tender is the Night)

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.

Love is the secret you unmask yourself to find; it is the foundation of the spiritual life, the destination where all roads of the journey lead.

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

If you expect to continue to purchase stocks throughout your life, you should welcome price declines as a way to add stocks more cheaply to your portfolio.

I don't mind being artificial sometimes, because I like veiling myself. I mean, I'm not honest or sincere: I am self-centered and narcissistic. I just want to be this entity.

I knew life Began where I stood in the dark, Looking out into the light.