The world is a bride of surpassing beauty-but remember that this maiden is never bound to anyone.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Becoming limitless involves mental agility

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

I originally set out to try and save the world, but now I'm not sure I like it enough.

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

I actually did a lot of improvised movies or movies that were partially improvised.