Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.

Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

Just keep your head down and do your best.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.

My biggest thing about being a role model is whatever I'm preaching, I'm practicing.

One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

Good drama is all about creating conflict.

My mind works like Google for images. You put in a key word; it brings up pictures. See language for me narrates the pictures in my mind.

A leader is a coach, not a judge.