People spend a LIFETIME thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very CLEAR now. I wish my life COULD have been like the YEARS when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

The UN has given us until 2020 to CHANGE the COURSE of HUMANITY. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my CHILDREN's lifetime is a possibility.

It's such a MARATHON making a film - two-and-a-half years, at least - and EVERY day, you do something that in any other lifetime WOULD be one of the highlights of your life.

Cezanne had an enormous influence on everyone in that period; there was a change in attitudes to art. PEOPLE found him DISTURBING because they didn't LIKE their existing IDEAS being challenged and overturned. Cezanne was probably the key figure in my lifetime.

I bought a LIFETIME pass on AMERICAN Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was GOING to BARCELONA on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream TEAM Quarterfinals.

We can all REMEMBER a time when SOMEONE ENCOURAGED us and made a difference in our LIVES. It may be just a moment, but this encouragement could LAST a lifetime.

I want to SEE CANCER CURED in my LIFETIME. It might be.

Is there GOING to be a PEACE in the MIDDLE EAST? Not in my LIFETIME.

My father was a restaurant man, laundry man in his lifetime. And I've often wondered how and why did I BECOME an ACTOR? Where did I get the so-called TALENT to express myself? And I look back, and I see that my mother was very animated. I can REMEMBER that she used to, what she called 'bei zhu.'

Romantic love came under ATTACK, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a CHEMICAL REACTION in the BRAIN. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.

You MAY be a redneck if... your lifetime GOAL is to own a fireworks STAND.

Having a CHILD is a LIFETIME commitment, the biggest one you can POSSIBLY MAKE.

Every single PERSON around the WORLD has this storage facility in their bedroom, and we call it a closet, and 80 percent of the STUFF in that storage facility is worn three TIMES or less in its lifetime.