Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.'

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

There was no race - but to the extent that there was an arms competition, it was almost entirely on the Soviet side, first to catch up and then to surpass the Americans.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

Rejoice and love yourself today 'Cause baby, you were born this way.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.