though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

Being happy on seeing others happy is happiness multiplied.

She (historian Barbara Tuchman) draws on skepticism, not cynicism, leaving the reader not so much outraged by human ability as amused and saddened by human folly.

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms... I once loved the whole world because you were in it.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other people.

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.

In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.