The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

Dreams will be fulfilled if you want them badly enough.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.