If you believe getting close to being 50 is bad... wait to see how one feels when getting far crom that age

Every small good deed counts.

I'm sad now, the way we're talking is infinitely sad: faded music, faded paper flowers, worn satin, an echo of an echo. All gone away, no longer possible.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Teaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.

An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension.

I was an incredible Anglophile. I found people who shared the same sense of humor and attitude toward the world.

The most sublime act is to set another before you.