The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Language is memory and metaphor.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Hope is a talent like any other.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement and the only time we see it clearly of life itself.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

The hunger of the spirit for eternity, as fierce as a starving man's for bread, is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

I wasn't shy, but I was really hyper. Nobody got my sense of humor. I was a black skater kid.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don't ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.

I had to keep reminding myself in 'Blue Valentine' that I was actually making a film.

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

Mountains are only a problem when they are bigger than you. You should develop yourself so much that you become bigger than the mountains you face.

Titles are of no value to posterity; the name of a man who has achieved great deeds imposes more respect than any or all epithets.

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

I always wish I had a road map for how to navigate my life as a parent and a producer, but in truth, it's a lot of trial and error.

There are no desperate situations there are only desperate people.

I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.

I am a professional squash player, and I recently played badly - but as well as I could - in a professional squash tournament. A professional squash player might sound like someone who is in a food-tasting group, but it is a racquet sport.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

Not many countries establish a prize for peace. The Seoul Peace Prize has its roots in the 1988 Summer Olympics when this country opened its doors to people and athletes from more than 160 countries. Korea did so in part because it believes in the power of sports for peace and development.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

The more you study, the more you subsequently know; naturally, the more you know, the nearer you get to perfection as a journalist.

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.