It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.

It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

Books, ' I say sleepily. 'They don't change either. If you read a book and look at it again later on, it's still the same thing. But it's exciting all over again.

[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing t

Our feelings towards our friends reflect our feelings towards ourselves.

Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.