Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

once I trained for the Olympics but panic is not a sport

The biggest payoff in achieving a goal is not what you get, but who you've become.

I'm forty-two, " he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

I'm not handsome enough to be James Bond. Maybe a villain, though.

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness.

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.