What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

A good liar must have a good memory.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Moonlight is sculpture.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.