If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

Creativity is the result of renunciation on the journey of spiritual enlightenment, not of a thirst for glory or personal pride.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

When we know our strengths, we're more likely to use them.

Anything worth having is going to be hard

One of the big dangers is to pretend that you can follow a predictable process when you can't.

Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.