Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Nature never writes a blind hand.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe.

What a privilege it is to be an American!

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.

The oak roars when a high wind wrestles with it; the beech shrieks; the elm sends forth a long, deep groan; the ash pours out moans of thrilling anguish.

I don’t need those memories, Kai. We can make new ones. We… can start over. Just like we’ve met only yesterday.

I subscribe to the thought that it doesn’t matter if it’s right or wrong. What matters is what works.

When you love a song so much you have to sing, you know how you feel - it releases something in you that resonates as true, whether it's James Brown or Joni Mitchell.

You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!

People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!