"... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!"

“There are no limitations with a song. To me a song is a little piece of art. It can be whatever you like it to be. You can write the simplest song, and that's lovely, or you can just write a song that is abstract art. ... A lot of my songs are very serious, I'm like dead serious about certain things and I feel that I'm writing about the world, through my own eyes. ... I have a love for simple basic song structure, although sometimes you'd never know it. ... Most of the songs I wrote at night. I would just wake in the middle of the night. That's when I found the space to write.”

“Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.”

“We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.”

“How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.”

Source : "The One Thing Henry Winkler Wished He Knew as a Caregiver". Interview with Katie Neal, spryliving.com. June 13, 2013.

“In reality, the main thing that keeps me awake at night is probably the destruction of the planet that's what gets me pretty upset.”

“How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?”

Source : "The King Must Die". Book by Mary Renault, 1958.

“The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.”

“I am here, come closer," the old donkey said with her eyes. "I will mother you.”