Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!

You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.

It is considered as conduct when it comes into exact understanding.

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

For so much of my career I've been trying to find little things and make something out of it.

Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.