Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Laughter is inner jogging.

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.

Reality is messy, but fairytale is clean

It is not usually our ideas that make us optimists or pessimists, but it is our optimism or pessimism that makes our ideas.

... habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.

There is no good side to celebrity.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

All of us, each and every one, lives a life that is, in its own right, an epic.

I'm always nervous taking on a period role because it's difficult to research - you can't observe it, go out and see it. But it's satisfying because eventually you think, 'I got there.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.