Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

Crying in the rain. No one sees your tears and your pain gets washed away.

The moment when you dream of someone deeply at night and in the morning you see that person staring and smiling at you.For me there is no word to express that feeling.

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

The developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and split into diverse branches.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.

What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.