My granddaughter's birth has made me want to create things she will love.

Change is such hard work.

Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

I'm going to go on just living and laughing and loving.

It is better to look good than to feel good.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

To be good, you need to believe in what you're doing.

A laugh is a weird sound, and when you get a couple thousand people making it at once, it's really strange. But when I can feel proud of myself for causing it, it's great.

You give up your dream, you give up.

Now a promise made is a debt unpaid, and the trail has its own stern code.

For things to be right on the outside, they first have to be right on the inside.

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.