Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

A brief life burns brightly.

The seed of mortals broods o'er passing things, and hath nought surer than the smoke-cloud's shadow.

Let's all try to conserve water. But it's OK to shower.

Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.