...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

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.

Swag is not about what you want people to think about you, its already knowing what they think about you.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

I think everyone probably starts out sounding like someone else, but gradually you develop your own sound.

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

Everything changes but the avant-garde.

The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.