A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Water is becoming a very scarce resource on a daily basis. Therefore, we need to teach communities to preserve it since we can't afford to live without water.

Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.

The trouble, in my opinion, with corporate America today, is that everything is thought of in quarters.

Through our inattention, we have wasted the years that we might have used to prepare for lessened oil supplies. The next ten years are critical.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.