All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

No one ever reached the top of a mountain by digging underneath it.

Nowhere do the Scriptures tell us to seek results, nor do the Scriptures rebuke evangelists if the results are meager.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude.

Inspiration and motivation may come from others, but true inspiration comes from within.

If risk is the key factor to success and really smart people avoid it, you might not be dumb enough to succeed!

Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.

I had a chip on my shoulders 'cause I felt like I was being overlooked.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.