If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.

Liberation from superstition is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for science.

Only the power of light illuminates our thoughts and our being.

I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long.

Live every second, Here and now . Don't let go, Before it's to late

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

If you lose emotion, and you gain it back, you realise that hate and love are very important to distribute properly. So I'm not going to waste any kind of emotion on things that aren't related to me.

I am passionately opposed to capital punishment, and I have been all my life.

Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.