If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

While most people took family for granted, he [Father Tim] took it for grace.

By just living one’s life, sadness accumulates here and there, be it in the blankets hung out in the sun to dry, the toothbrushes in the bathroom, and the phone history logs.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldnt get any roles other than as somebody dark.

Tantra and adventure are very, very connected. Perhaps the greatest enemy for one who's journeying along the spiritual path is complacency.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

No fool can play chess, and only fools do.

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.