Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

Speech is the best show a man puts on.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

Love is exactly as strong as life.

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

Her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth.

[ I'm] humorist, I guess. Or really more of a reporter. A reporter who reports on funny things.