What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

listen: there’s a hellof a good universe next door

I know my strong points: I work hard, I have talent, I'm funny, and I'm a good person.

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

I spent so much of my younger life drinking, and being drunk makes learning to be a grown-up kind of hard.

My mother was a very wise and strong person.

I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

I don't know if I want to break my own record. I think I would rather leave it as it is.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.