Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Every day you leave a legacy behind, so make it a good one by doing something of significance.

Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.

Being able to say, “No, ” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

I love the spontaneity of plays and of being onstage, because that's an energy that you can't really fabricate in movies.

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.

It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you as a person don’t or maybe we adjust, but don’t actually change.

A defeat borne with pride is also a victory.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.