Jargon is making it increasingly hard to understand what a public figure is actually trying to say

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

I like having my own style; love my work or hate my work, it's my own.

The managerial class has forced on us a public language that makes no sense

I remember trying not to disrupt everyone else in the room, fumbling around trying to figure out how to use the medium with a beautiful model disrobed in front of me.

Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist.

Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.

Language is butchered by the media

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

I ask myself, 'Do you want to sit on the sidelines of life or do you want to be on the field?' I suppose all those years of building thicker skin has made it easy to endure criticism.

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away:Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.

Happiness is achieving your goals. Contentment is not having any.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.

An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

Too hard for MTV, not black enough for BET, just let me be.

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.