I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find -- at the age of 50, say -- that a whole new life has opened before you.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh...is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh...and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh...try to figure out what my phone number spells in ...Read more

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

There are times not to flirt. When you're sick. When you're with children. When you're on the witness stand.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.