Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

I know of few families today that aren’t touched to some extent by the heartache of divorce, including our own.

atheists are the most faithful people I ever met

... luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

All is energy and there is no energy higher than right love, which has no object

I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it.

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

Your past determines your future unless you’re clearly moving past your self and responding to what you know in your heart.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.