The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.

There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional.

I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful.

She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.'You're being very silent.''That's how men cry.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.

I do admit there have been times when I have made a statement that was incorrect.

Worship isn't a feeling you wait for, it's a choice you make.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional

It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

Obviously, matches and all that stuff takes its toll on your body and so forth. But as you get sort of a bit older, a bit wiser, and a bit more experienced, you know also how to handle it.