Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather sympathy we learn to feel for the pain of others.

I have a tendency to trust translators, mainly because nobody does it for the money.

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

The best-dressed man is an Italian who is trying to look English, or an Englishman who is trying to look Italian.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.

The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.

It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up.

If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation.

The difference between the Old and the New Testament is the difference between a man who said "There is nothing new under the sun" and a God who says "Behold, I make all things new.

I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.