"Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed."

“I got to have a TV show that really was the talk of the nation for a while there. So I'm a very lucky guy.”

Source : "EMMYS: Marc Cherry On 'Desperate Housewives'". Interview with Ray Richmond, deadline.com. June 13, 2012.

“She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.”

“In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.”

Source : Interview with Léa Seydoux, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 23, 2014.

“Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

“Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.”

“Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.”

“Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.”