The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness

What uneasiness lies in being loved.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

A true artist is an ugly man.

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.

Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.

I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.

To be able to stand out and be respected by many, you have to be positively unique and full of substance.

When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.

All I knew about shot putting was that my [older] brother could do 44 feet. I decided I wanted to beat him. . . . So I got a shot and went to work and made up my mind to do 45 feet.

To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption in subject matter.

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

We can often do more by doing less. God is not particularly interested in quantity production. That is an American standard, not a Bible standard.