Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.

I dream, therefore I exist.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

Some people seem to be born to suffer.

No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

Dance is moving sculpture.

You don't have to be in hurry in life.

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

Look up here, I'm in heaven.

When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony.