The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Enjoy your happiness while you have it and while you have it do not too closely scrutinize its foundation.

There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness. ... We expect too much.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.

I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

The trouble with Adric was that from the beginning he was so damn complicated.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

The Grutter and Gratz decisions, taken together, represent a sad and tragic chapter in American history.