Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Develop a strong thirst for positive associations and learning from others, because the right people can take you further than you can go on your own.

If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you?

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

Faith is a twenty-four hour a day commitment.

I'm taking my rats. Those are my friends for the tour. Thelma and Louise. They're so cute.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Why waste a sentence saying nothing?

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.