After my mother's death I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

One thing is undeniably clear. We have all had bad experiences, we have all had tragedies in our lives which help to shape who we are.

The life of action is nobler than the life of thought.

The Lord won't confirm a lie.

I have never really liked gigantic-scale painting. I think that so many artists are seduced by scale - "Well, if I make it that big then it has to go in a museum."

And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

... the fouling of the nest which has been typical of man's activity in the past on a local scale now seems to be extending to the whole world society.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.