If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

Greatness doesn’t come from what you do, but from who you are.

The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.

We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.