I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

The grass is greener on the other side, but often this is just an illusion. Most probably, everyone is as unhappy as you.

Impossibility is only a whisper away from reality

The centre of me is always and eternally in terrible pain ... A searching for something beyond what the world contains, something transfiguring and infinite.

This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.

I have a dance background. I have an athletic background.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

The odds are so stacked against you to have a music career in a place where there's virtually no music industry. So I always attribute it to God.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

Love is larger than life.