Dimly lit restaurants always make me think they're trying to hide the food.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Everyone lives by selling something.

We just have to live each new day as if it’s a precious gift. When I wake up in the morning I like to think that this day will be better than any day I’ve ever lived.

I pride myself in recognizing and upholding ability in every party and wherever I meet it.

That's awesome. There's no bias in the media.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech