There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines.

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

As many ideas you can generate, encourage them to form nests in your mind, for one will surely liberate you.

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions.

Fighting has opened the path to redemption for me.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

I can only think of one wacky best friend who I thought was awesome: Rhys Ifans in 'Notting Hill.' He really nailed the wacky best friend.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

The first step to delighting your customers is being there when they need you.

Anger is like an intoxicant; it reduces man and degrades him to the level of an animal.