It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

I do not distinguish between the construction of a book and that of a painting and I always proceed from the simple to the complex." - 1946

Make the world better.

We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.