...as for helping me in the outside world, the Convent taught me only that if you spit on a pencil eraser, it will erase ink.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.

One of the most powerfulquestions you can ask yourself is, ‘How do I hold myself back?’Once you know the answeryou can get out of your way.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

To any mental state there corresponds a physical condition.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

Many times, the game comes down to the final possession, the final shot. I want to become a better clutch performer. That's what separates the really good players from the really great players.