The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

When stress is the disease, then forgiveness and laughter are the medicine.

Live in the light.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.

You can shape people how ever you like it, but first you have to gain their Trust

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.

I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordina ry.

[John Cassavetes] came backstage afterwards and introduced himself and we talked a bit, and then went for a little coffee at the Russian Tea Room next door. It just...started.

I'm so lazy. I'm on the road all the time working, so when I'm at home, my perfect date is just laying on the couch!

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.