I've struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form.

Love ... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery.

I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

the knowledge of personal failure ... is the invaluable predicate of all honest compassion.

I have no home but me.

I have slowly come to realize that a family is composed of people who are teaching one another.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

People are a soul-ego-spacesuit.

I have discovered that some people are wealthier than others not because of their superior intelligence but because of their abundant mindset.

You got the eggs in you

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

Pray daily.Pray daringly.Pray desperately.Pray determinedly.

The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

You fail in your thoughts, or you prevail in your thoughts only.

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal