You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Keep passing the open windows.

Half my life is an act of revision.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.

. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

What are we before love? But thoughts floating upon a sea. Searching for a shore to explore, to gaze into infinity.

And I don’t even like you, but the pain of life without you is biting.

Great struggles make for great stories.

One summer I worked at Estée Lauder, and I really enjoyed the whole creative process.

If men knew themselves, God would heal and pardon them.

No one should ever be afraid of failing; it's being afraid to give it your all in trying that I urge against.

When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth.

Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating