It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.

A Society in which the people's wants do not exceed their possessions is not a Socialist society.

Some tulips last so long you could almost dust them off, and others you can't trust over night.

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.

Personal integrity is important, not because it gets us what we want, but because it helps us be what we want.

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.

You need to surround yourself with quality human beings that are intelligent and have a vision.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.