Nothing but truth is immortal.

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.

I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it.

Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me!

One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.

Individual honors come with team success.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

The further one separates himself from the precepts of the Christian Church, the further one distances himself from the truth. Only God can create. I make music from music.

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.