If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door- or i'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

We live in the world when we love it.

Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free.

It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

The most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

The problem is not how to wipe out all differences, but how to unite with all differences intact.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it.

Where You Hail From Isn't As Important As Who You Are and What You Do...Your Doings Define and Describe You.

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

Don't plan to repent at the 11th hour - you may die at 10:30.

Jazz is the music of unemployment.

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

Anonymous sources are to journalism what silicon enhancements are to the feminine figure; they look impressive to the gullible, but something doesn't feel right.

I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

I am apt to be harsh in my secret judgments of others, seeing them as defective because they are not enough like me.