Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Courage is not beating up the bully or letting the bully beat you up, it is standing strong before the bully and seeing him for what he truly is: a child of God in need of an attitude adjustment.

He was't just my exception. He was my reason.

We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all.

Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

You can lose your ability to play romantic scenes... you have to ensure that your mind is in the right place.

Every generation and every group brings the door into other things.

Success is not permanent & failure is not fatal.

The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

You're not turning the picture over to a system or a process, you are the process, and the most important thing is to have things exactly as you want them.