Perhaps I have lived my life to excess, but know what — if I had it to do over again, I would overdo it again.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

Though confined to our destiny, we do get to pick the color scheme.

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.