Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.

The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.

Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.

Seek the Lord while you must.

God wastes nothing.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

Earthly pride is like the passing flower, that springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

Cynicism can be funny. But it's the easy way. You'll forget to enjoy anything. I try to make the evolving choice, the forward-moving, life-giving choice. Just keep living, man.

Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.