You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

From a fallen tree make kindling.

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander

I think it's a great quality to the movie, Ondine, that it's so authentic, and it didn't go for a compromise, like speaking with clearing accent.

Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black.

Cotton candy. Like eating a cloud of diabetes.

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.

I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.