Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

There is great power in goals and dreams.

Life is not a competition with others. Life is a competition with yourself—to do your personal best each day.

Bold people dance happily when they are confronted with life’s adventures... they see themselves going through with smiles... Give no excuse for being a coward. Be bold!

Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space everything else is opinion.

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

Atheists are not Americans.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him. "For time to stop. "Why?" He shrugs. "Cause I could live forever at this moment.