Creative work carries with it a form of intense love.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Happiness has always seemed like a bluebird, and consists of moments.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Sit here, so I may writeyou into a poem and make you eternal.

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

Education is the art of helping young people to completeness; for the Christian, this means education is helping a young person to be more like Christ, the model of all Christians.

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

I think it's a big part of being a creative person.

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness