I can tell where my own shoe pinches me.

I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.

For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this, A man to hav bent in prosperite, And it remembren whan it passed is.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyfull of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends. -Doc Childre.

An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.

I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Our Lady of the Snows.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.

They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.

"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be!

Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book.