Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys. To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime.

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.

A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

I kissed goodbye the howling beast on the borderline which separated you from me.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.