In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.

I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.

Isn’t it wonderful to give birth to your own kind?

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.

One of the biggest lessons we can learn in life is to do everything possible to reach an accord with the individual we are having trouble with.

My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there.