Half my life is an act of revision.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

If a nation succeeds in making her people strong in virtues, then the nation is rich already.

We're nobody's dirty little secret.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

But while the American Constitution was the child of war, ours grew out of discussion, bargaining and negotiation.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself.

We humans still have a long way to go with learning to live harmoniously with our environment and its wildlife.