I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.

A clear prayer for which you take sole responsibility has no option but to manifest, if not today or tomorrow, then the day after that.

In order for you to receive, someone else has to give. That’s called sacrifice.

God determines how fast you're going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells.