When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Because each book has its own special perfume.

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

The joy of living is his who has the heart to demand it.

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

When you have kids, there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.

Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.

New York is nice, but I don't like it as much as I used to.

It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

Love is like a child, That longs for everything it can come by

A man’s doubts and fears are his worst enemies. He can go ahead and do anything as long as he believed in himself.