It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Beauty without expression tires.

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination.

Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

People cannot live forever, but memories can. Never pass up an opportunity to create awesome memories with your special ones.

Discretion can be abused, and rulebooks are important safeguards against that. But the balance has shifted too far in the direction of an obsessive reverence for rules.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

In school, I was an underachiever.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.