You are much more than the sum of what you produce.

Success is not a destination that you ever reach. Success is the quality of your journey.

It's a lot easier to get your way if you have more than one way.

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.

The best revenge is, of course, a good life. Enjoy yourself, be happy, be successful. It'll drive them crazy-or you can imagine it does. You'll feel so good you won't care.

The journey toward the heart is always a journey home.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

People who think in absolutes usually don't listen to anyone but themselves. They resist new ideas and try to preserve the status quo.

alone but trying to survive alone.

Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make and you must use your imagination to make it too just like anything else. It's all work work.

Emphasis should be laid on the evolution of humanity.

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

You only stay in front by coming up with ideas your new competitors haven't thought of yet.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.

...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.