She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

Take me away from all this Death.

I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.

Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

Despair has its own calms.

We learn from failure, not from success!

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

You can be anywhere you want in the world, meet different people and learn more than a hundred things in a matter of minutes… all you have to do is READ!

I thought it peculiar how one new experience can alter your perspective on places you've known your whole life.

Our real power in life comes from our true thinking!

It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

You don't have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them.

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.