You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.

Everyone become a creation of their environment.

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

Through it all, we attempt to bring balance to the present moment, understanding that in patience lies wisdom, knowing that what will come next will be determined in large measure by how we are now.

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

There's no more of an excuse for blaming other people or the world for at least not trying what you should be trying.

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.

They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance.

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?