If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

Headlines twice the size of the events.

He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.

Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

Focus your whole attention on heaven

We reached the point where weapons should go silent and ideas speak.

I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.

The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Learn to ask, "If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?"