And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

With you, I would walk anywhere

later down the road of life, i made the discovery that salt water was also good for the mental abrasions one inevitably acquires on land.

Sufism is known by means of itself.

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Happy the people whose annals are tiresome.

shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.

I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.