And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance calls many.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

I don't rate myself as a fantastic, talented athlete. I just have perseverance. I'm a cart horse. I work hard.

I'm the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn't wear it. I'm a Green Bay Packer.

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

If Kevin James or Paul Giamatti drop weight, I'm done. I don't want to be the last pudge out there.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.