If you try too carefully to plan your life, the danger is that you will succeed-succeed in narrowing your options, closing off avenues of adventure that cannot now be imagined.

Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change.

Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice.

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

When we begin to lift the veils of censorship and repression in painting, a great deal of energy is unleashed.

So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.

Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.

Government is the enemy until you need a friend.