The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

A mother is a mother from the moment her baby is first placed in her arms until eternity. It didn't matter if her child were three, thirteen, or thirty.

I think the only answer is to live life to the fullest while you can and collect memories like fools collect money. Because in the end, that's all you have - happy memories.

Life is a lease and God is the landlord.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

The power of women united, I am again reminded, is an invincible thing.

Coeur qui soupire n'a pas ce qu'il desire. The heart that sighs does not have what it desires.

We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives.

Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

I'm not proud of it, but I'm a great liar when I travel. I smile and lie, and things are smooth.

Globally local commerce is a $12 to $14 trillion market. If we get 10 percent of that, we'll be very happy.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

Nobody cooks anymore. To me, to watch your parents cook, and to have a house that smells warm and delicious, is a very vital memory that I think kids don't really have anymore.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.