Once I could imagine my soulI could imagine my death.When I imagined my deathmy soul died. ThisI remember clearly.My body persisted.Not thrived, but persisted.Why I do not know.

It is true that there is not enough beauty in the world. It is also true that I am not competent to restore it. Neither is there candor, and here I may be of some use.

I am tired of having handsshe saidI want wings —But what will you do without your handsto be human?I am tired of humanshe saidI want to live on the sun —

Both love and God are misunderstood, as they are one and the same.

Life without madness is mediocrity.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power