I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

A relationship could be a place to hide too.

You must have love as the core it takes courage to be willing to constantly tell the truth to each other and risk letting the relationship go.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - Ill devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson.

Happiness is gentleness, peace, concentration, simplicity, forgiveness, humor, fearlessness, trust, and now.

People are very secretive - secret even from themselves.

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting.

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Im a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.