I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else, there is the Art of Acceptance.

Deep down, he's shallow.

I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.

Always remember that your success begins inside you: If you can't see it first, no one else ever will.

I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

An ill weed grows apace.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

These younger kids - I think growing up with social media, they're just savvy.