the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

Trust is like a glass vase, beautiful except there is no way of putting it back together when it breaks.

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

There is no style in dieting but we become beautiful when we change our style of living.

I achieve what I plan because I plan what I can achieve.

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

Playing President Clinton (in Primary Colors) was risky and challenging. Some people thought Saturday Night Fever was risky, because no one had danced in movies for years.

We're all curious about a lot of things.

Tolstoy's definition of art is the inverse of the truth; the task of art is to transform not perception into feeling, but feeling into perception.