Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Success is always earned with patience.

A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.

You give to the world your greatest gift when you're being yourself.

Resentment makes anything possible.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

You continue to dream the wild dreams that you dream when you were young.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.

I keep telling myself that I don't miss you and that I don't love you hoping that someday I will believe it.

You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.