The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

To find grace, we need not look so very far ahead. We need only look at the present moment. God gives us grace right now, in the very moment we need it most.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

Mistakes are made in every other human endeavor. Why should nuclear weapons be exempt?

The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

I don't talk about my hair anymore because I've matured. I matured and realized it doesn't matter what you look like. It's what kind of hair you have inside that counts.

You just have to live and life will give you pictures.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.