Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

This alone is to be feared - the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of the spirit. The death of the body is to that, I think, a little thing.

Nature is not silent, and never was a name more derisively inappropriate than when we speak of these non-human creatures who hoot and crow and bray as the dumb animals.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.

Don't expect a good life, just expect to be good in life." -Joseph Jiyun Yang

I wanted stories, and I wanted them always, and I wanted the experience that only fiction could give me: I wanted to be inside them.

I will not let those, who cannot recognise how I can be of service, dissuade me from showing them how I can help.

Great mentors give great advice.

True worship is God-centered

International broadcasters are often dependent on an American home broadcasting network, so it changes the game entirely.

I'm Catholic, he's Jewish, and it was just easier to elope.

Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

Don't pole-vault over mouse turds.