Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Sunlight is painting.
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
What is to give light must endure burning.