Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.

I think the real risk comes in being willing to try to be authentic.

You're not useful to me until you've made three momentous mistakes.

Creativity is basically subversive. . . .

Software will never replace the Koran.

Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives.

Beautiful is who you are

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

Money lost-nothing lost, Health lost-little lost, Spirit lost-everything lost.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America

You can't grow and learn if your focus is on finding someone else to blame instead of looking at your own shortcomings.

You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idleness that is involved in the Everest expedition.