There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped' growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.

Friendship is something in the soul. It is a thing one feels. It is not a return for something.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance.

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.'Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

I don't believe anyone who says love, love, love. It means self, self, self.

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim

To feel pure joy, sell your pride and be loving and kind.

Is today a good day to die?Is today the day?And if not today–when?

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

When you're in your own body, you don't feel great about yourself. I don't think of myself that way.

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

To me, wholeness is the key to aliveness. It is more than just physical vitality, it is radiance, coming from being at one with yourself and your experience. Life then flows through you.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.