The only thing some people do is get older.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

You've got to love what you're doing. If you love it, you can overcome any handicap, or the soreness, or all the aches and pains and continue to play for a long, long time.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.

Photography must be integrated with the story.

The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.

No one stays for you. Everybody stays depending on their need for you.

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

Bullies are just ignorant.

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.

Humility comes from understanding that the obstacles in front of you are not going to go away.

Just do a thing and don’t talk about it. This is the great secret of success.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.