
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you”, that would suffice.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

We only think when we are confronted with problems.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

We all boil at different degrees.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

Law and justice are not always the same.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.