Why sleep when there are books to read.
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.
I prefer old age to the alternative.
If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
The crime of loving is forgetting.
I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!
I dream of a world where people from different backgrounds are praying and working for the flourishment of communities different from them, and I find my sustenance not only in these stories in scripture, but in stories of human existence also - the story of the Bosnian Muslim man who took to a Serbian couple with a new baby a liter of milk every day during that horrible struggle in the former Yugoslavia, because he said even if our tribes, our nations, are at war with each other, there is something deeply human about me wishing that your baby survives and is secure.
I'm a good shot and I love guns - I own several.
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.