Marriage is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect!

Beginnings are so important. Just finding that right moment to introduce this character, this world, it’s everything.

Every time you answer the phone, someone is crying, someone is raging, someone is begging you to solve their problems.

But the places we come from don't leave us as easily as we leave them.

That was the problem with getting used to people - you had to miss them when they were gone.

What do you know about being sad?' 'I know you don't need a reason.

Marriage, " she said quietly, "is the most expensive ticket to nowhere

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

And in that foggy place between sleep and waking, he could have been anyone. That was what she liked most about him: In the darkness, he became whomever she wanted.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

Planting of godliness must be a continuous thing, however, one needs to start the planting of godliness from the home front.

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway.

I love the Elvis movies. I used to watch them. In every single one of his movies he wasn't acting as a car salesman - he was acting as a car salesman who loved to play guitar.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Our purpose in founding the city was not to make any one class in it surpassingly happy, but to make the city as a whole as happyas possible.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.