The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.

I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the love in my life.

Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.

Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

The gospel is not weight, it is wings. It carries us.

When you think about the passion that's involved wth Jamaican culture, it's like, they're not sitting around waiting for things to get all pretty: they want it raw and dutty.

Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing.

The American people need to know that money is being used effectively because frankly, the nation can't afford careless spending, no matter how well-intentioned.