dating is like campaigning: you don't reveal who you really are or what you're really up to until you get elected.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

The key to life is imagination.

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

Compassion is the most necessary ingredient in all relationships. Everything depends on it.

I may not remember, but I never forget.

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.

When a child dies, it breaks the pattern, the most fundamental pattern in life.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

What you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while. Read The Power of Habit.

Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.

When you're younger, you think of your age in fractions. 4 1/2, 5 1/2. You don't hear 36 1/2. You become 2, you turn 40, you reach 50, you make it to 60. By now you're going so fast you hit 70!

In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system.

When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

I worked for a lot of directors.

We must understand variation.