I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.