You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.

Maybe the way we have learned to look has changed in the last 25 years, and the exotic is much more acceptable. There are many artists now, younger artists, who work out of the exotic

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Tolerance for intolerance is not tolerance at all.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

Anything that you might want to be is around somewhere. You can become it. You just have to get into the state of mind that allows that to occur.

You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.

Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to seek simplicity

Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.