Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

Civility is only a passenger - not a driver - on the information superhighway.

We go lightheartedly on our way, never thinking that by a careless word or two we may have altered the whole course of human lives, for some person will take our advice and use it.

Being a musician enables a person to bend the notes and express things that are inside you, no matter what.

Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.