I know the next best thing is often the very best.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

There is joy in every circumstance. Although the beginning is/might be bitter, there are valuables lessons in between that bring joy.

Marriage is not kick-boxing, it's salsa dancing.

I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference.

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders

I guess I'm inspired by other people who are successful.

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.

After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. ... there are no age limits for love.