"I live here. I work here. Why would I have an issue with America? This is the only country that gives you freedom - freedom of religion, freedom of choice. You don't get that elsewhere. Nobody wants to leave America. People die to come here."

“Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.”

“I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.”

“Your happiness depends upon your very own thoughts. No one else can think your thoughts for you. Deliberately think thoughts of what you want because they're the thoughts that make you happy.”

“The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.”

“As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.”

“Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.”

“Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.”

Source : Richard Matheson (1978). “What dreams may come: a novel”, Putnam Publishing Group

“Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.”