The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present.

And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

Wealth announces itself with what's easy to break and impossible to clean. The chairs were all curvy works of art that turned sitting into yoga exercises.

Never forget the first three letters of confidence.

The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.

Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence.

In order to become the chisel that breaks the marble inside us, the artist must first become the hammer." [Soviet censor of paintings and photos]

There are so many paths to contentment if you're open to self-delusion.

A single whisper can be quite a disturbance when the rest of the audience is silent.

I should pursue only those habits that would make me feel freer and stronger.

Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realise

Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

How hard you work matters more than how much you make.

It is therefore vital for you to understand that being single-" separate, unique, and whole"- is most essential to, and the foundation of, not only marital relationships but all relationships.

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'.