Good things, when short, are twice as good.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Love is divine ink: miracles are God's signature.

Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.

human eyes know to converse well in all languages & human smiles know to conceal well many a things !!!

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

It seems disrespectful to me to see ladies in church in very short skirts or skimpy, sleeveless tops. I would imagine that it could be distracting to men who are trying to keep their minds on God.

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

I think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.