I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

What is the purpose of achieving your dream if the people you had dreamed your achievements for are no longer there to reap the benefits?

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

I'm a realist all the way. I'm too cynical to be an optimist. But I've lived too much of a charmed life so far to ever be a pessimist.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property and wealth.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.