If you feel so strongly about what's on television, don't have one.

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.

Half my life is an act of revision.

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 . . .

Human looks sure on face, while the earth lost in space.

May you find the strength to pursue your dreams.

You are only happy in life if you forget the bad things and focus on the good things

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

They (the FAI) have asked, very humbly, can't we be team No 33 at the World Cup? They have asked for that... really!

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.