Try not to worry what your parents think - try to help them see that you do live by the values that they taught you.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."

Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

The love you feel in life is a reflection of the love you feel in yourself.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Until you take your profession as passion, each and every activity looks as a headache

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

[ Woody Allen] persona in the films are so iconic; it's like on par with Groucho Marx or something like that.

Death is an engineering problem.

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

Jayne Mansfield is making a career of being a girl.

If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.