The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

With our ignorance, they win, we lose.

It might seem a contradiction but... the ability to improvise requires lots of practice. Ask any jazz musician.

We are changing all the time and this never changes.It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us

Conscious practice becomes unconscious practice.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

Nobody can learn for another. Only we can teach ourselves.

We are the sum and synergy of all our experiences.

It is absolutely possible that the impossible is possible.

The "question" is the inoculation against and the antidote for ignorance.

As a camera is an instrument that teaches us how to see when we don't have a camera, writing is a process that teaches how to think when we are not writing.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

When you go into the world you would not even notice when you become dead

Beauty is a heart with wings.

You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams

She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.

I don't have time for friends.

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

All I can do is make the best of what I am, become accustomed to it, evaluate the possibilities, and take advantage of them the best I can.

And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.