The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask what they believe, just observe what they do.

The idea of "race" represents one of the most dangerous myths of our time.

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

The loving touch, like music, often utters the things that cannot be spoken.

Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as an insufficiency of humanity.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

The best decisions are often those made from the creative part of your mind and not the emotional part of your heart.

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.