The critical lessons in life hold sway whether you like it or not.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.

Holy hug is a soft kiss.

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.

We have to live with it, sometimes these coincidences do happen. They are obviously huge losses but we will just have to get on as we are.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

The knowledge that every day there is something more to learn, something higher to reach for, something new to make for others, makes each day infinitely precious