Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

.if you're looking in to deep night sky, you can get the deepest thoughts..

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

I drink a lot of protein shakes and do a lot of weight lifting.

Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.

I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

When God sends his angel to the soul it becomes the one who knows for sure.

The biggest challenge you have is to challenge your own self doubt and your laziness. It is your self doubt and your laziness that defines and limit who you are.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.