Pirates could happen to anyone.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish

Leaders respond & change

When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable.

Wake up and smell the coffee.

When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.