It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

I love to smoke. I wish I had more than two hands so I can hold more cigars

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

We can't understand our calling and our vocation until we listen to the Lord... until we look upon the Lord... until we realize who it is that we're really serving. Are we serving God? Or the world?

If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.

My feeling is that a newspaper should serve its readers and it just seems to me that given what is going in the world, people are hungry for something.

All are one family, serve all.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!