People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

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.

Prayer is energy. Try to come from a higher, lighter vibration of gratitude and expectation, in place of worry and fear.

People who tell you exactly what they think of you aren't necessarily enemies.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

The mind is complicated and you can't trace the roots of its processes, but there is something about mathematical and algorithmic patterns that I like to recognize in things.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

You're all welcome in California.

There is equality in the office but not on the street.

You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.