every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

I find it rude to laugh at a man with a sword.

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

I think we need to change that old saying, "I don't need a building to fall on me." Because two did and we still don't get it. I think we all stick our head in the sand as a deep human impulse.

Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death. Victory is ours through Him who loved us.

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.