I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.