Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years'.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.