Tis the motive exalts the action; 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

No-one is ever too old to know better.

The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.

I've been accused of riding roughshod over others' emotions, and I admit, when I feel a friend is being over-indulgent, my patience is in short supply.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

In everyday life, my wife is the most wonderful. We're in love with each other beyond belief.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in harmony or in conflict with the background.

I am willing to be annoying if that's what was necessary.

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.