Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

If you win the battle in the mind, you have the weapon of life.

Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after.

Preach the Gospel, die, and be forgotten.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

The idea of the self interests me a great deal. What is the self? And finding yourself, and which self? In a way, we're more than one self, but you somehow try to get to a rock bottom self.

Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I’m sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.

I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.