Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.

I was nostalgic even as a young man. Preferred listening to Opera not Bing Crossby.

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.

Tel Aviv, with its young Olim community, is the sexiest thing on the entire planet.

I'm a black-diamond skier and can dance the whole night - if I find a good partner!

Love is the force, the energy that animates creativity and peace in each one of us.

The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

...poking a lump of red Jello that jiggles outrageously, like a breast I once knew.

I kind of have to go to the bathroom," Aria said woozily. Ezra smiled. "Can I come?

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

That's what dessert means to me: a dollop of sweet love in an otherwise cold world.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

When you've got kids, it's a big undertaking. It's like doing four movies in a row.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

No one is able to enjoy such feast than the one who throws a party in his own mind.

The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

The challenge with being an initiator of projects is that you are never, ever done.

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either.

The innovator creates a business where they are making money, even when they sleep.

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

Liberalism has become a moral vaccine that immunizes people against stigmatization.

If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.

There has been peace. There will be peace again. But right now, we have work to do.

When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.

If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

There's only one of me. With you using the why in the center of your work helps me.

If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

Should I tell him I'm not afraid of being hurt? I'm afraid of not being in control.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.

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