Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

There is safety in the very heart of danger.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything

Music is part of being human.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

When they get their ego involved, people do things they shouldn't do.