The nourishment of Cezanne's awkward apples is in the tenderness and alertness they awaken inside us.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

You talked over the tour guide who pointed to houses and windows. Showing us where people had lived and died and other people now stayed in their place. Just like a broken heart." - Adieu

Nobody ever feels they’re doing well with teenagers, ” he said. “I think that’s kind of the point of them.

The better I get to know men the more I find myself loving dogs.

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce.

Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season.

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself.