And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

Making a living is nothing; the great difficulty is making a point, making a difference-with words.

But, the truth is that everyone is somebody already.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity; Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God

I'm an introvert at heart... And show business - even though I've loved it so much - has always been hard for me.