Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

I had never been as resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes perhaps because although I couldn't sew I could think.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

The word God, to me, is like the word enlightenment. It's become so corrupted by our ideas of what God is.

I'm still hibernating so I get really frustrated with other people's goals and just stop.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.