Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

The beauty of getting older is the surprise of what else you can do to make the world a better place with the wisdom that you've accrued over those years.

For me, commitment boils down to honor.

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

I'm trying to think if there was ever the Lenny Bruce-y, observational, George Carlin kind of magician: "You know what I hate is ..." I don't think that ever existed.

I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.