Often someone else's words can provoke us to memories both painful and sweet, and remind us of things we should have learned, but sometimes forget.

Love by its very nature is extravagant, but we poor human beings, so caught up in fear and worry, limit the very love we were created to bring into the world.

Simplicity allows a measure of freedom which the complexities of modern life greedily consume – freedom to think, to reflect, to create, to serve and be sincerely generous with our time and presence.

Within the mystery of death, love stands guard and waits, filling the moments that "are" with itself, so that the moments to come will never be empty, never devoid of someone so loved.

Takes long, Stings hard, Benefit's large.That's your experience in life. :)

I mean, really: what kind of person could possibly dislike me?

You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.

The appropriate age for marrige is around eighteen and thirty-seven for man

Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.

Any form of art is a form of power.

Patriotism is a mystery-intangible, invisible, and yet eternal.