When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

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.

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

Wayne is my favorite person to work with though, because ooohh, oohh, Lil Wayne is just too good, he's just too good.

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

But I though you were dead!" "Obviously not. Now, let's get out of here!

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

I consider music to be very sacred and I feel I'm blessed to be born with a talent which allows me to make the best of it.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.