Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

As I always have with stand-up or anything, you kind of draw on what you're going through in your life.

Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

Why should we ever continue anything if the first parts are the best?

Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer

Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

Never tell a child that something it's too hard

There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.

Knowledge must come through action.

To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.