The freedom to make mistakes is the one and only bonus of getting old.

There can be no great love without exclusivity.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.

it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

Hate is funny. Love isn't. Love can kill you. Hate can keep you alive.

You do know when people say 'chic,' they mean thin.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

I've always felt acting is a part of music.

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

I think that you have to believe in your destiny; that you will succeed, you will meet a lot of rejection and it is not always a straight path, there will be detours - so enjoy the view.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.

Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination.

There are 80,000 jobs in the wind energy industry right now. And you can quadruple that number, if you have the right policy in place to promote clean energy.

I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.