In my old age there is a coming into flower. My body wanes; my mind waxes.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

When we take too long to forgive the people we love, we can sometimes be too damn late for it to matter.

Great things are accomplished by those who do not feel the impotence of man. This ... is a precious gift.

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.

God created the world and then created the devil, to blame for his mistakes.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.