I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealinggreat-great-grandfather!

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

The impossible is more believable than the highly improbable.

An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

In a way, it made him sad. He couldn't help but think that a hundred times zero was still nothing.

Whenever you give someone a present or sing a holiday song, you're helping Santa Claus. To me, that's what Christmas is all about. Helping Santa Claus!

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Porches could be cleaned with a broom in a few minutes, but the soul could not be swept. It had to be shaken. And shaking the loess from a soul took a lifetime and more strength than most people had.

They’re so brave, " she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that, " she said scornfully.

Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.

There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven.

Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.