In the present, every day is a miracle.

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

In the present every day is a miracle.

If loving and communing with God isn’t your primary purpose in prayer, you’re missing out on what Christianity is all about!

Frankly I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

Everywhere I've been working, I always had in mind the final destination of the clothes, which is the consumer.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

The unforgivable sin is the refusal to pardon.

I like to prepare as much as possible beforehand, but there's definitely that element of fear when you're on set, and you have to be conscious of it and use that fear to drive you to work harder.

There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.

I think, in all honesty, the first place that someone in emotional distress should turn is their loved ones, and then to use professionals.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Baseball fans are pedants, there is no other kind.