The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

If I need romance, that's what Netflix is for.

remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.

Everyone is from somewhere, even if you've never been there.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

Prayer is continual abandonment to God.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

From True Emptiness The Wondrous Being Appears