I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Gratitude is a joyful act.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.

Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

Sometimes I'll leave the house and go to a delicatessen down the street from me - it's been there a million years - just because I can look at people.

Skillfully engaging in intimate relationships can be one of the most potent spiritual practices.

There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

So that when I came to New York again, it was, I'm not too sure right now, but it was '74 or '75. I went to Miami in '74 and then I came to New York, I think, at the end of '74.