True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praise-worthy.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher they be, the less they should show.

Happiness is a sunbeam, which may pass though a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray.

If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.

I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down

My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.

No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

The best part of work is always working with people and getting to know them and having the sense that you're not actually working.

You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.