Our most important legacy will be the contributions we make to the lives of other human beings.

The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.

The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.

When we learn to say a deep, passionate yes to the things that really matter, then peace begins to settle onto our lives like golden sunlight sifting to a forest floor.

I believe a radiant, light-filled tomorrow should be normal to the experience of living.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life.

Nurture your great spirit for a great self.

Harold Bloom weeps for me.

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

You are what you love. No? You are, completely and only, what you would die for without, as you say, the thinking twice.

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager.

When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.