Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

I'm prickly. I fuss over every single detail.

You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.

Year Up for me is a year in which the young adults that we serve have an opportunity to move up in their lives and gain the access and opportunity they need to realize their potential.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.

Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.

It's important to feel good.