Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

Until death it is all life

What good are words if no one believes them?

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

I don't look at what I've lost. I look instead at what I have left.

Never drink alone, that's what they say. But you know what? If you drink you will never be alone, alright?

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.