To go through hurt, you have to stumble on the rocks in order to walk on solid ground.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

Are you doing life or are you living?

I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least.

Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating for. What do you want?

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.