No one can say no to your success and happiness because God has already said yes on the day you were born.

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can.

Fear is only a four letter word.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it?