Doubt is a necessity of the mind faith of the heart.

We often make people pay dearly for what we think we give them.

The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.

Prejudices are the refuge of those who cannot think for themselves.

You should only confide your secrets to someone who has not tried to guess them.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.

To be brave one short instant is no easy matter it is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

Parents are friends that life gives us friends are parents that the heart chooses.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

Of all feats of skill the most difficult is that of being honest.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

We mustn't start off with the idea that there's only militarism, invasions, and occupations. We really have to look: What are the alternatives here?

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

I don't know what to say about Donald Trump.

I like guts in my leaders.

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.