Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Well, we'll have no more of such foolishness, " I say harshly, to cover the wavering in my voice. "We're getting married, and that's that.

It was not accustomed to being summoned.

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

Holiness is happiness; and the more you have of the former, the more you will undoubtedly enjoy of the latter.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

Here lies David Garrick, describe me who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

I've worked very hard, but my life's always been fun.

A compliment is verbal sunshine.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.