We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

The writer is by nature a dreamer - a conscious dreamer.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.

The Smile of a Child enlarge the universe (D'un enfant le sourire - Agrandit l'univers)

Typically, only about 2 percent of the American populace tunes in to PBS's 'Nova' series - the most successful science show on the tube. 'Survivor' and 'X Factor' get twice the ratings.

Attitudes are changing very quickly.

Encourage 'random' picks on the ball because they cannot be scouted

If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist.

Growth always involves the risk of failure.

I was the front man of the choir and then when I was 12 and I was the leadsinger of my highschool groups.

Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.