We do know that we are cheated from birth to the overcharge on our coffins.

It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings.

Smile because it's infectious.Love because it's contagious.

If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.

Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell.

You can be childlike without being childish.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

All music written by a Christian should be as integrated as everything else done by a Christian.

My little boy Sonny makes me laugh all the time. He has good comedic timing.

I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.