In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

If consciousness is currency, I've got me a goldmine!

Who can find a faithful friend?

There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your feet and your path seems to become less comfortable.

Beliefs shape the size of our opportunities. Love expands them beyond faith.

I look out over my life and see a million question marks with only a few definitive exclamation points. I'm living for the next exclamation.

The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.

I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?

Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.

The offering of [the body] is called a spiritual sacrifice because it is freely sacrificed through the Spirit, the Christian being uninfluenced by the constrainst of the Low or the fear of hell.

I'm driven. I have the opportunity to change people's lives.