I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Jango danced

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Don't dream to be something but rather dream to do something great.

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it’s fair, it isn’t a trial.