Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

I never heard of anybody who admired the character of sheep. Even the gentlest human personalities in contact with them are annoyed by their lack of brains, courage and initiative, by their extraordinary ability to get themselves into uncomfortable or dangerous situations and then wait in inert helplessness for someone to rescue them.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!