"Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it."

“People say to me that I cant be nervous because Ive had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.”

“Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.”

“Incredible things can be done simply if we are committed to making them happen.”

“The infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind reveals to me my true place in life.”

“Lately, they were always reassuring each other that nothing was wrong; and probably it was true—life wasn’t supposed to be incredible, after all. Life wasn’t some incredible movie. Life was all the movies, ever, happening at once. There were good ones, bad ones, some went straight to video.”

“When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.”

“Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout 'Bang!'”

Source : George F. Will (1983). “The Pursuit of Virtue and Other Tory Notions”, Touchstone

“Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.”