No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Words like “patience”, and “kindness”, and “goodness”. They are the words of a hero.

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds.

The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.

Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction

Can I believe in that God too?

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

If you are giving back, you took too much.