Only of one thing I am sure: when I dream I am always ageless.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

When I dream, I am ageless.

The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

Little I ask And that little is not granted." There are few crumbs In this world any more.

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

At a touch, he explodes like a snapdragon into loud purrs.

The rules are simple!

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

My portraits are half what I see and the other half is invented or dictated by the person and the painting.

What nature creates has eternity in it.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

Nutrition can make or break you on race day. It's not something you leave to chance. If you don't plan for it you're almost guaranteed to bonk.