The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

The more you kick something that's dead, the worse it smells.

I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

As lower-cost phones begin to penetrate, they'll become the educator and physician everywhere on the planet.

If you are truly confident about something, you welcome honest questions about it.

Elegance is the balance between PROPORTION, EMOTION & SURPRISE.