Be less than what you are so that you can become more.” ― Joseph Delaney, The Spook's Sacrifice

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

A dreamer is a gifted man, who, plucks out his dreams of sparkling stars.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence?

One should not be adventurous being a woman.

Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one