Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

Fine minds are seldom fine souls.

Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

The Fates and Furies, as well as the Graces and Sirens, glide with linked hands over life.

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

She knew of a woman who had entered such a bargain at a large automobile manufacturer in 1973 and successfully managed to keep her accounting position for over four decades.

‎What a blight that woman is. Do you happen to know why? I lean toward a malignant fairy at her christening.

It's not the price but it's the value of the thing that making them important

Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

Im pretty aggressive, and maybe obnoxious, about trying to get work.

To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.

When God takes your straw, it isn’t because he wants you to remain a slave. It’s because he wants you to take another step toward freedom.

I think that Eminem is very talented and remarkably bright, and I actually do like a lot of his music.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.