Once you label me you negate me.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Freedom lies in being bold.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.