If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.

Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

When I have a lot of work to do my life is very distracted, so for me to concentrate on music I need to create a structure where I can focus better.