How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

I have met many minds able to store and translate a pregnantly large amount of information, yet they haven't an ounce of talent for wisdom or the appreciation of passion.

Some journeys lead nowhere, but they set the spirit free

What greater evil could you wish a miser than long life?

The arts are the signature of a nation.

As souls must cry when they awaken in tiny babies and find themselves far from heaven

I am not as eloquent as Stephane Dion.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Family is always first.

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.