We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.

Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have adopted for yourself isn't working.

This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt inside smiles. Everything was hidden away.

Flowers, after love, must have been the best advert planet Earth had going for it.

Obey your head. Obey your heart. Obey your gut. In fact, obey everything except commands.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

We get most of our energy from complications.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allotted for vacation.

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

The real pleasure,the real peace, the real enlightenment is to give. The more you give the more you get. If you give 10, you get 100.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors.

Grace saves us from life without God-even more it empowers us for life with God.

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.