Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

If it weren't for the animals waiting for her, she wouldn't bother getting out of bed. Then, room service was a little lacking when you lived alone.

Hate is the wrath of the weak.

I make music cuz it's almost like I can escape everything I was involved in. All I gotta do is make music. I don't do nothin but make music.

No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Teaching is a strategic act of engagement.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life

I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.

The business (and person) who tries to be everything to everyone ends up being nothing to anyone.