Missing rubs the soul raw.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

So if we could not have love, my husband and I, then at least I could have alchemy.

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

Family. The greatest loyalty after God.

As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

In the twenty-first century, human minds, and to a lesser extent, human hearts can work like well calibrated precision instruments, but who can write the universal manual on imagination?

Just because there is an obstaclein your path, that doesn’t meanyou have to get off the road.

But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.

Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.

Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.