It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.

This is not how people behave in a Cracker Barrel!

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else.

Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!

Love always was and always will be the only real answer. Why else do you think we have been taught so much hate?

When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

The bad mood fairy comes to annoy you only when you are actually in a good position, but don't yet realise it!

Donald Trump's numbers are historically low for a Republican nominee with women. Historically low.

It's highly likely that what you're doing is indeed influenced by your Jewish background.

I do love the challenge of screenplays. They're so difficult, such an alien form. It makes them endlessly fascinating. Something I can't keep my fingers out of.