Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of London, that's all there is to it. Period.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

Anyone can get a job, but do you have a purpose?

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go.

Acceptance is the sense of belonging.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.

I think acting is getting better and better.