To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and enthusiasm and wants gods to worship.

One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.

Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn't have to win I had to become better within myself.

Thank[Barack Obama] for the reliable friendship and partnership you demonstrated in very difficult hours of our relationship.

It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it well. That's something I'd like a lot more women to understand.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

Is that your hat or are you wearing a cabana?

When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.

An idol is anything put in the place of God as the ultimate reality - the eternal, self-existent, uncaused cause of everything else.

You don't change minds in Washington with sweet reason. You do it to the white light of public opinion