But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

Never confuse someone else's inability to do something with its inability to be done.

Joy and happiness are the treasures of life and it comes when we appreciate and express gratitude for the abundance of our life.

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail- Be the best of whatever you are.

How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break.

The primary skill of a manager consists of knowing how to make assignments and picking the right people to carry out those assignments

No arts, no letters - no society.