Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

Not a deed would he do, Not a word would he utter, Till he's weighed its relation To plain bread and butter.

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.

It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.

Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.

Eat from the Tree of Life and throw away the verbal ham.

There were no lies here. All fancies fled away. That's what happened in all deserts. It was just you, and what you believed.

If your children don't fight, they won't love each other when they get older! It's a common thing.