I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.

Without God, right and wrong are just personal beliefs. Personal opinions. I think shoplifting is okay, you don’t.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

I was drawn to acting because it was the one place that I found an emotional outlet.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.