It will not do, my friend, to grant an easy indulgence to natural appetite and desire, for they ever seek to be our masters.

It is the easiest thing in the world to go to astray, but always difficult to return.

Even the heart in time may grow cold.

Life is given for increase

I’ll be strong for you. Live me, baby. Live for me. Please.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

We die, because we live.

In a tree there is a spirit of life, a spirit of growth and a spirit of holding its head up.

Talent is truth on display.

More tears are shed in playhouses than in churches.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.