We live in our own souls as in an unmapped region, a few acres of which we have cleared for our habitation; while of the nature of those nearest us we know but the boundaries that march with ours.

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.

If there's anything worth any risk at all, it's got to be love, right?

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

[My father] was very impressed when he saw "Death of a Salesman," I must say. He recognized himself to some extent.

Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured...it was like coming home.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.