There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logical snail.

In the soul of a lover, it is always spring where flowers of ecstasy are always blooming. Music of love is always playing.

Respect is earned, Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.

Failures do what is tension relieving while winners do what is goal achieving.

He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

You know that saying about how you don't know what you have until it's gone-I already did know what I had, and now that she's gone, I know even more.

Girls are taught to seem, to appear - not to be and do.

Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and another absent.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Money always talks louder than morality.

You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.