Sing and your hell is heaven, your heaven less hell.

In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

Dance until the earth dance.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

One flower may slay the winter and meet death.

You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.

I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

Never do an enemy a small injury.

I've seen foreigners really shift on their view of America, and that's hard for me to take.

One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.

Mistakes, I know I've made a few. But I'm only human, you've made mistakes, too.

A country in which the people are not healthy physically and psychologically, are poorly educated and illiterate, will never rise to the peaks of world civilization.