Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Those who criticize the innovative concept of multi-site churches must also remember that at one point stained glass and hymnals were new as well.

i see no difference between "past" and "paste", both of them still stuck on my mind.

Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.

I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.

cause down the shore everything's all right

Anything on paper is obsolete!

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.