The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care.

The journey toward the heart is always a journey home.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

People who think they know usually stopped thinking long ago.

It's not so easy when you're trying to win a war against the heart

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

My favorite animal is steak.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

Love has no form, no color and is certainly not prejudice or judgmental.

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

I am one of the most idiosyncratic people around.

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

As it is she will probably turn out to be one of these acid-faced virgins that sit behind little desks in public libraries and stamp dates in books.

Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.