Nothing moves at the Hotel New Hampshire! We're screwed down here-for life!

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

Everybody has bad relationships and, at the end of the day, they are just a great way to set yourself up for a good relationship.

Don't judge a book by its thickness either.

I don't do quagmires.

I do like to read in bed, but because I have two kids I'm often forced to read in the bathroom.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.

You know, a huge drain on California's economy is the illegal immigrants. We need to close the borders.

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together.