I can't say what Danny Kaye is like in private life. There are too many of them.

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

When what's left of you gets around to what's left to be gotten, what's left to be gotten won't be worth getting whatever it is you've got left.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

Draw a circle, not a heart, around the one you love because a heart can break but a circle goes on forever.

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

After all is said and done, its usually the wife who has said it and the husband who has done it.

The secret of staying fresh in a show is to remember that the audience you're playing for that night has never seen it before.

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better.

Literature is sacred knowledge

For me to read a good novel without enjoying a cup of coffee or a cup of tea or a nice glass of wine in the process would be like having water without the wet. It's simply impossible.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.