Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.

Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.

In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

What family doesn't have its ups and downs?

I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. “God do this, God don’t do that.” I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.

Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even it

Culture is what we choose to repeat.

Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.

And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.

Musical Chairs. Except I thought, when God's providing the music, everyone gets a chair.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

I certainly have warm relationships with people, but you choose the people you have those relationships with. There are some people I don't bother with.

As long as we are mindful and aware, no one practice is better than another.

They knocked out Bernie [Sanders] as they would have knocked him out, like [Barack] Obama if he came into office. So I don't think the Democratic Party is going to solve it for us.

A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal.

When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.

Despair is anger with no place to go.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.