The only things you do in life is live and die, everything in between is optional.

She didn't want to alienate herself from the very wealthy man that was about to offer her a job by declining the polite offer of a drink.

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it.

Everybody needs a hero. Jesus is mine.

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

Never be sad for what is over, just be glad it was once yours. Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.