My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance

That's the trouble with you preachers, " he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything, " and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.

How to fool yourself into feeling younger: When you go to restaurants, always check a coat and a skateboard.

I try to be like a sponge when I'm around other actors, picking things up about the way they work and how they do things.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.

Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?

In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.