It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

We also need to learn the art of letting go: of the past, of unresolved grievances, of our younger selves. Nobody gets out of here alive.

Everything we are afraid to try, all our unfulfilled dreams, constitute a limitation on what we are and could become.

We are all prone to the myth of the perfect stranger

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

Our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses.

If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.

Life's two most important questions are Why? and Why not? The trick is knowing which one to ask.

Reason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

He (Tommy Pettitte [father] coached me as kid. He bought all the books and videos and tried to learn as much about pitching as he could. But once I was in high school, he never tried to be my coach.

If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible.

Spirituality is connected with practicality.

NBC announced that during the summer Olympics they will set a new record by airing over 1200 hours of coverage. Which is amazing because that's 10 hours longer than the coverage of Reagan's funeral.

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

I'm a writer and director, and the movie I've seen a million times is 'Stardust Memories' by Woody Allen, starring Woody Allen and Charlotte Rampling.