People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

When we pay attention to nature's music, we find that everything on the Earth contributes to its harmony.

To travel is to live.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back.

Golf is fun - until you hit somebody in the head.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living - and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing whatever you are doing.

The only way to get the light is to strike a light, and then the darkness goes.