It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.

There's an old saying, 'Life begins at forty.' That's silly. Life begins every morning you wake up.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.

I called Vee."How are you doing?" I asked."Good. How are you?""Good."Silence."Okay, " Vee said in a rush, "I am still totally freaked out. You?""Totally.

As long as there is institutional inequality, hell, naw we can't all get along!

Be true to what matters most to your heart.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.

Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

Jesus was clear that He had come, not to make life easy, but to make men great.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.