When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.