It is as if the ordinary language we use every day has a hidden set of signals a kind of secret code.

Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music.

I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

You don't need many words if you already know what you're talking about

Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within and it lies beyond your wildest imagination, so expect a roller coaster ride to get there!

life has a funny way of testing you to see if you really want, what you say you want.

We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

Technically, I'm a New Yorker.

I think my films kind of walk this line that Im proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.

I think a single sentence by Van Gogh is better than the whole work of all the art critics and art historians put together.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.