He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

When people have been oppressed for so long

I realized that with hard work the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do. I learned that at a young age.

I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.

I love to exercise outside in the fresh air and sun: hiking, swimming, stand-up paddleboarding, and jogging.

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

As you get older, you learn there are some things out of your control.

When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner.

You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever.