“The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.”
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, …
“We don’t get offered crises, they arrive.”
“Success only hurts the first time.”
“Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and …
“I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the …
“Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you’re waking up to instant stress. You shouldn’t be bullied out of …
“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”
“We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being …
“The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to …
“In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.”
“Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”
“Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.”
“I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.”
“I don’t have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly.”
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
“Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.”
“A self that is only differentiated – not integrated – may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same …
“It’s all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right …
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
“I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”
“A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.”
“If you can find something everyone agrees on, it’s wrong.”
“Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come …
“Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.”
“At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether …
“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.”
“Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.”
“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
“Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the …
“It is within the families themselves where peace can begin.”
“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
“And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you’re beautiful, so don’t let other people tell you that you’re not just …
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.”
“Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That’s how rich I want to be.”
“I never know how much of what I say is true.”
“Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn …
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.”