The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.
When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.
You don't have to like your family, you don't even have to spend time with them, to know them right down to the bone.