I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.

People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.

Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.

Very strange people, physicists, " he said as soon as they were outside again. "In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.

Even Jesus, three days, died. Who is strong doesn't make the strong. (Même Jésus, trois jours, est mort. Qui est fort ne fait le fort)

Never expect anything without being prepared to give.

Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.

Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work.

I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.

What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire when I was growing up, listening to names like Lord Finesse.

Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger

Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

It took me three years to learn to dress in the American way, especially in winter. That was just like me. I barely wear socks even now.