Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

You have to be skillful in your time management to be effective in life

Successful people (or soon-to-be success people) never quit, never settle and are never satisfied

God begins to paint the clouds in the eastern sky when the mountains butterflies come flying home

If you know from whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations on where you can go.

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.

So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd

I couldn't write a song to save my life. I wouldn't say that I started to panic, but I was definitely getting frustrated. I couldn't even cross a t or dot an i.

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

Women my age just don't turn me on. That's another problem with getting older. I took out an older woman the other night, and I mean old. I told her, Act your age. She died.

The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.