Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

The only joy in the world is to begin.

Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

Lessons are not given, they are taken.

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies. The fearful thing about it is that, not knowing what truth may be, we can still recognize lies.

We never remember days, only moments.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another’s soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

The pine is the mother of legends.

You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.

There's nothing more frustrating than seeing a conductor say, 'Play softer,' as they're waving their hands in huge gestures.

I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.

Boats in the harbor are safe but that is not what they are meant for.