Live is good!

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.

The more fashionable doctors in Italy, began to delegate to slaves the manual attentions they deemed necessary for their patients ... that the art of medicine went to ruin.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

Vision is an intelligent form of thought

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy; and in no other way can true joy be found.

You can only feel creative when there is joy. When there is a sense of passion.

Better degrees don't automatically translate into better skills and better jobs and better lives

In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

I am worth the effort of creating a blissful life. I choose to care for myself like a treasured lover. I love myself.

If you want God to unfailingly do His part, then you must be willing to tirelessly fulfill yours.

Isaac stopped her at the bottom of the stairs with a crooked smile. "I would wish you sweet dreams, but how can they be memorable if I won't be in them?

What is this place?" "Nothing at all. Everywhere there is. Both at once?" Wereberry offered.

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

Guitar gigs were everywhere in the '50s, and I started diddling around so I could keep working. Playing honky-tonk, simple stuff. I took a few gigs with an organ band that put me out front.

When I see something unjust, I have to intervene - it's hard for me to watch the underdog suffer.

I know what a really bad day is...and that's not losing a competition.