One person's weed is another person's wildflower.

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

You can't expect a wolf to play with you and not eventually bite.

We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter.

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

What happens when an art form becomes ambiguous, I think, is that the standards are lowered. You can say anything is jazz. So I think it's important to reflect on what made jazz so special.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.