It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting story to tell. No one's experience of life is valueless.

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right . . . but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

We have one set of obligations to the world in general, and we have other sets never to be reconciled to our fellow-countrymen, to our neighbors, to our friends, to our family, to our children.

You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

When anyone says they often think something, it means they've just thought of it now.

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

..deceivers must expect to be deceived.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Barack Obama has raised tons of money. That is what he means by being green.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

The way is light and fluid for the man with no preferences.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

I love collaborating with strong women.

Most everything means nothing, except some things that mean everything.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Until I test the limits to what I can achieve, I won't really know how well I can do.

Amateurs do things 'till they get it right. Pros do it 'till they can't get it wrong.