we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

What the world, social and political, concrete and mental, really needs is not new things, but the old things made new.

Promises were made for people who do not trust each other.

There is no such thing as time for those who are happy. For the others - there is nothing else.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Quite a small spoke is enough to stop a wheel - even a mighty big wheel - if it's going too fast.

People have a way of thinking that everything is finished when the very best of all may yet be in store.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.

What we once fling away never comes again to us.

He had the compassion of a vivisectionist.

Jesus told us to make disciples, not decisions.

More men die of jealousy than of cancer.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

The point of existence is not to find the most powerful thing you can imagine and then grovel before it.

You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.