If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

I’m not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.

The existence of the EPA regulation will require large carbon polluters to look at their hole cards, and some of them have decided that they much prefer legislation.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

When I step into the kitchen in the morning, I go for the scrambled eggs with pine nuts and minced lamb. When I finish at night, it is hard to resist the burger.

Yeah, but coming from Dudley that's like "I love you.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

I am not running for mayor yet. But if it comes to be true that people cannot voice an opinion unless they have been elected, then we are no longer in a democracy.

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.