“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.”

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

We all have souls of different ages.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

Don’t forget who you are and where you come from.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.

Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

China has great potentials; the people are hard-working and focused. But they have to close the gap as far as the pace of the game is concerned. Football in the future will get faster and faster.

I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won’t part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn’t sufficient value.

North Shore Animal League America is so dear to my heart not only for the amazing people that work there.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Being a doctor at Johns Hopkins does not make me any better in God’s sight than the individual who has not had the opportunity to gain such an education but who still works hard.

I’m oftentimes called away from my family… it’s rather hard for me to be away from them. We’re very close.

I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.