Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second. But then perhaps this is what lovers are.

If I could have him like this in my dreams every night of my life, I'd stake my entire life on dreams and be done with the rest.

I suddenly realized that we were on borrowed time, that time is always borrowed, and that the lending agency exacts its premium precisely when we are least prepared to pay and need to borrow more.

At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

There are easy ways to bring back summer in the snowstorm

How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn to put up with because they couldn't quite disown them.

I wish I knew how to calibrate my kiss the way he did but passion allows us to hide more.

How historians explain time is one thing, but how we live time is quite another.

We loved with every organ but the heart.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80!

The love in the Midwest is way different from New York - people accepted me like one of their own, and they showed me a bunch of love, so I did a big song dedicated to them.

You young men of the priesthood, resolve to live the way you should. Don't be caught up in some of the silly things that are going on in the world, but bear in mind what has been given to you.

My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom

Was ever grief like mine?

You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.