We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Hang on to hope in any hardship.

Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.

It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.

God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.