Life is an obstacle and forest, when you have accomplished it all, you get a reward. The reward is Heaven.

Let no one turn you down because you are young.

It is great to be free physically, but it is greater to be free mentally.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands today who'd never seen my play before, and might never see me again"-Joe DiMaggio

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure: try to please everybody.

For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.

When my wife drives, there's always trouble. The other day she took the car. She came home. She told me, There's water in the carburetor. I asked her, Where's the car? She said, In a lake.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.