The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.

Dancing is the body made poetic.

A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both.

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say theway God sees events from above?

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

You'll always get the good news; it's how fast you get the bad news that counts.

Beware how you give your heart.

Everybody likes their coffee different.

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.