The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

Encouraged, we recognise the importance of living artistically, aesthetically and creatively as creative creatures of the creator.

The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it.

It makes sense that there is no sense without God.

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature, composition, history, world events, vocabulary, and everything else.

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

There is nothing original; all is reflected light.

Certainly we have to find some kind of warning to put on guns for sale. And that's not too far-fetched. But what I really want to do is take the guns out of the hands of irresponsible people.

Music is so hard. It's a struggle to get people to care. It's hard to make an impact in today's world because people aren't buying records anymore.

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life forms, and they call you crazy.

I believe in something that I do not yet understand.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage