you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

An eagle can catch a fish in the ocean of impossibility because he pursues and focuses on only one fish.

One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.

That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.

No, actually I wanted to play five. I definitely wanted to try to lose that fourth set and test the waters in the fifth.

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.