Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Lose your weightLose your mindBut don't lose heartIt's very expensive .

The moment you try so hard to forget becomes your sharpest memory.-Tara

It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all-the apathy of human beings.

I would prefer as a friend a good man who is ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

Don't buy preground coffee.

It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to look like the person.

We're all human and life is complicated.

If you were not born in this world, there would be no need to die. To be born in this world is to die, to disappear [laughing].

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.