The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it, and by God, we always shall.

For me, I was raped in my own dorm bed. Since then, it has basically become fraught for me, and I feel like I've carried the weight of what happened there with me everywhere since then.

A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.

I love people, 'cause people are so smart. People have done a lot of great things.

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.