Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.

The man who persists in knocking will succeed in entering.

I went out into the garden in the morning dusk, When sorrow enveloped me like a cloud; And the breeze brought to my nostril the odor of spices, As balm of healing for a sick soul.

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues.

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

A book is a most delightful companion. It gives, and does not take.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light.

Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.

Sorrow shatters my heart; And men distress it with blame, Because it follows love.

Actually, Jake said, isn't life what we make it, wherever we are, whenever we may be - wherever it is that we are?

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.

God, eldest of Poets.