Kindness may be the most difficult of virtues, but when I have encountered it, it has meant everything to me.

Desire is the key to motivation, but determination, commitment, and actions are the keys to success.

To those who know thee not no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are faint!

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up.

Who you spend time with is who you become.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.