The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

No man should ever completely realize his dreams. What else would there then be to live for?

You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.

Thinking and planning is one side of life

When you do the things in the present that you can see, you are shaping the future that you are yet to see.

Provide me with an ink, paper, inspiration and place me on the high point on the edge with the sunset and sunrise, and I will make a masterpiece for you.

What's measured improves

Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.