You can never know what you are fully made of until you start to do the things that fear you the most.

Even now, that day reminds me that raindrops are stronger than hammers.

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion

When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished??

The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

Application of humility is service.

I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.