One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Everyone has excess awareness in one or two things. In everything else, he does have awareness indeed. If one has equal awareness in everything, he will indeed become a Gnani [the enlightened one].

The greatest sacrifice is the sacrifice of time.

[Brazil] went to the UN and said, "We need new standards for this." We need to take a look at what they're calling "data sovereignty."

Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic.

I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.

I was just letting the shots fly. You know, I don't leave any bullets in the chamber.

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

For the dead there are no more toils.

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.